Child Labor in Pakistan is increasing everyday. Here you will be able to find its reasons and solutions.

3. Group Members
Maaida BT14006
Fizza Ansar BT14021
Ayesha Maqsood BT14013
Kiran Maqbool BT14014

4. What is a Problem?
◈ A matter or situation regarded as unwelcome or
harmful and needing to be dealt with and
overcome.
◈ A perceived gap between the existing state and
a desired state, or a deviation from a normal or
standard one.

5. What is a Social Problem?
◈ A social problem appears to be any difficulty or misbehavior of a
large number of persons which we wish to move or correct (Frank
L.K).
◈ Social problems are abnormalities in social relationships which
manifest themselves when people live in groups, which are
considered dangerous and which must be eliminated to safeguard the
society (H.A Phelps).

6. Important points to understand a Social Problem
◈ Social problem is a condition which is disliked by majority of
people.
◈ The problem can be solved by collective action instead of
individual.
◈ Drought, Heavy Rains, Earthquake, Storm are problems but
not are Social Problems because they cannot be controlled by
group efforts of the people.
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7. Social Problems in Pakistan
◈ Today Pakistan is facing a lot of social problems but
some are very common in Pakistan, which are
destroying our society and also economy of
Pakistan.
◈ Like CORRUPTION, Poverty, Illiteracy,
Population Growth, Terrorism, Smuggling, Drug
abuse, etc etc etc…
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8. Child Labor
(A socially accepted Problem)

9. What is Child Labor?
◈ Child Labor is work for children that harms
them or exploits them in some way e.g.
◈ Physically
◈ Mentally
◈ Morally or Blocking access to Education
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10. “
“work that deprives children of
their childhood, their potential
and their dignity, and that is
harmful to physical and mental
development.”
Defining Child Labor:

11. Who is a Child?
◈ International conventions define children as aged 18 and
under. But Pakistan government defines a “child” as aged
15 or under. ."Child" and "childhood" are also defined
differently by different cultures.
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12. Child Labor in Pakistan
◈ In Pakistan children aged 5-14 are above 40 million. During the
last year, the Federal Bureau of Statistics released the results of
its survey. The findings were that 3.8 million children age group
of 5-14 years are working in Pakistan out of total 40 million
children in this age group.
◈ Fifty percent of these economically active children are in age
group of 5 to 9 years. Even out of these 3.8 million economically
active children, 2.7 million were claimed to be working in the
agriculture sector. 73% of them were said to be boys.
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13. Fizza Ansar
Roll No: BT14021

14. Effects of Child
Labor

15. There are many bad effects of child labor on our society.
Some of them are as follows:
◈ Psychological Effects
◈ Physical Effects
◈ Lack of Educational Opportunities
◈ Sexual Abuse

16. Psychological Effects
1
• Depression
• Hopelessness
• Shame
• Loss of Confidence
• Anxiety
• Aggression
• Worse Health Condition
• Greater risk of hearing loss
• Growth Deficiencies

17. Physical Effects
2
Immature and inexperienced child laborers might be totally unaware of the
short and long term risks involved in their work.
• Carpet Weaving
• Agriculture
• Automobile Workshops
• Mining

18. • They face injuries from sharp
instruments.
• They strain their eyes and children also
develop spinal deformities
• Muscular deformities
• Infections from the fiber and chemicals
Carpet Weaving

19. • High rates of injuries while working in
agriculture.
• An estimated 100,000 children suffer
from agriculture-related injuries in
Pakistan annually.
Agriculture Work

20. • In an automobile industry, there is an
unsafe and polluted environment.
• Some chemicals have messed up their
growth.
• In manufacturing units children suffer
from headaches, sore throat and skin
rashes.
Automobile Workshop

21. • Radon is associated with several types of
underground mining. Long term exposure can
cause lung cancer.
• Mining is a noisy process.
• Back injuries from lifting heavy loads.
• Very fine material dust particles from blasting
and drilling can accumulate in lungs.
Mining

22. Lack of Educational Opportunities
Least concerned parents, illiteracy and
unawareness these are directly linked
to educational level of society.
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23. Sexual Abuse
Girls who work as home servants
away from their houses, sometimes in
different Middle Eastern countries, are
common victims of physical and sexual
abuses which cause shocking
consequences on their physical
condition.
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24. Causes of
Child Labor
The Different Reasons Pakistani Children Get Into Child Labor

25. Different Reasons
◈ Poverty
◈ Illiteracy
◈ Inflation
◈ Over Population
◈ Unemployment of Elders
◈ Failure of Law

26. Poverty
“Poverty is the lack of food, shelter, money
and clothing that occurs when people
cannot satisfy their basic needs.”
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About 29.5 per cent of the country’s population is living below
the poverty line.
Approximately 55 millions people are living below poverty line.
(Pakistan Today – Aug 30, 2017)

27. Illiteracy
“Illiteracy means individual who can not
read or write.”
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 According to UNESCO, Pakistan has 135th position out of 150 countries.
 Literacy rate in the country saw an annual drop of 2.0 per cent to 58 per
cent during fiscal year 2015-16 — a level last seen in FY2013-14.
 The decline in literacy rate has been witnessed in Sindh, Baluchistan and
Punjab while it remained stagnant in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P).
 In the 2017-18 budgets, all these governments allocated Rs902.7 billion
for education.

28. Inflation
“ Inflation means when there is a rise in
prices of goods.”
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“A common man in Pakistan is finding increasingly difficult to survive in this
era of highly increasing prices if general items. A person from middle group
bracket and that from lower income group bracket is finding difficult to gain
access to even the basic necessities a family needs for survival. Items like
food, education, medical care, transportation have all seen a hike upwards in
their prices.”

29. Pakistan Inflation Rate

30. Over Population
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“An excessive number of people, straining available
resources and facilities.”
Pakistan is world’s 5th most populous country in the world with
population of 210,267,000 which makes 2.77% of World’s total
population. The figures are based on Jan 16, 2018 estimate by
national census authority of Pakistan.
Pakistan’s population growth rate is 3.68

31. Unemployment
of Elders
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Elders often find it difficult to
get jobs. The industrialists
and factory owners find it
profitable to employ children.
This is so because they can
pay less and extract more
work.
“Unemployment or jobless
usually occur when people
are without work and
looking or searching for
work but would like to get
full time employment.”

32. 6
Failure of Law
Another main reason for the
promotion of child labor is due
to the failure of government in
practicing the laws to stop child
labor due to which child labor
is increasing day by day.

33. Kiran Maqbool
BT14014

34. Solutions
To Stop Child Labor

35. “
“There Is No Reason, There Is No
Excuse,
Child Labor Is Child Abuse.”

36. Solutions To Stop Child Labor
◈ Reduce Poverty
◈ Free Education
◈ Enforce Labor Laws
◈ Look After Your Employees
◈ Donate to Charities
◈ Replace Child Workers by Adult Workers

37. Conclusion
Child labors are not working at the choice of their own.
They are the victims of their circumstances and we are
taking the benefit of their compulsions. Child labor can
be controlled if the government functions effectively
with the support of public. In this way the future is much
brighter when the younger generation has a good
foundation for success.

38. Don’t Ask Children to take tool instead send them to school.

39. Thanks!
Any questions?