Child labour refers to work that deprives children of their childhood and education. Poverty, parental illiteracy, overpopulation, and ignorance are reasons why children engage in labour. The consequences of child labour include physical injuries from dangerous machinery, pesticide poisoning, growth deficiencies, and long-term health problems from chemicals. Preventative measures include increasing family income, education, social services, and supporting awareness organizations to stop child labour and ensure children's futures are not put at stake.

1. CHILD LABOUR
AN ISSUE MAKING OUR COUNTRY’S FUTURE AT
STAKE

2. What Is Child Labour?
Child labour refers to the employment of
children in any work that deprives children
of their childhood and interferes with their
ability to attend regular school.

3. Reasons
• Poverty
• Parental illiteracy
• Over population
• Ignorance

4. Consequences
•Physical injuries are caused by badly maintained machinery on farms
and in factories, accidents in plantations, and many number of hazards
encountered in industries such as mining, ceramics and fireworks
manufacture
•Pesticide poisoning is one of the biggest killers of child laborers. In Sri
Lanka, pesticides kill more children than diphtheria, malaria, polio and
tetanus combined. The global death toll each year from pesticides is
supposed to be approximately 40,000
•Growth deficiency is prevalent among working children, who tend to
be shorter and lighter than other children; these deficiencies also
impact on their adult life

5. •Long-term health problems, such as respiratory disease,
asbestosis and a variety of cancers, are common in countries
where children are forced to work with dangerous chemicals
•Exhaustion and malnutrition are a result of underdeveloped
children performing heavy manual labour, working long hours in
unbearable conditions and not earning enough to feed
themselves properly.

6. Prevention
•Increasing family income
•Education
•Social service
•Providing direct help to individual children
•Supporting organizations that are raising awareness

7. Some Sweet Ones Some Bitter Ones

8. Conclusion
"World Revolves around the Children,
Children's Future revolves around
Education”
Stop Child Labor

9. Thank you

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