This document discusses the causes and solutions to the problem of child labour. It identifies the key causes as poverty, low aspirations, demand for unskilled labor, illiteracy, early marriage, and high costs of education. Some solutions proposed include providing free education, creating moral and legal awareness against child labour, increasing technical training to develop skilled labor, and empowering impoverished communities through education, literacy programs, and income-generating projects.

1. welcome

2. CHILD LABOUR: CAUSES
AND SOLUTIONS

3. Child labour refers to the
use of children as a source
of labour while depriving
them of their fundamental
rights in the process. Such
rights include the
opportunity to enjoy their
childhood, attend school
regularly, have peace of
mind, and live a dignified
life.

4. CAUSES OF CHILD LABOUR
 Poverty.
 Low Aspiration
 Huge demand for unskilled laborers
 Illiteracy
 Early Marriages
 High cost of education

5. Poverty
 Children who come from poor
families may be forced to work to
support their siblings and parents or
supplement the household income
when expenses are more than the
parents’ earnings.
 Children can be found employed in
mines or hawking in the streets to
earn money that is used to provide
basic necessities such as food and
clothing for the family. Children
may also be employed in factories
to generate income for the family
instead of attending school.

6. Low Aspiration
 Low aspirations by parents and
children is a major cause of child
labour because in such a situation,
being employed in a local factory,
or selling grocery in the streets is
the normal way of life.
 They do not aspire to become
professionals in the society or great
entrepreneurs. It is a mindset that
forms the very foundation of child
labour.

7. Huge demand for unskilled labourers
 Children are mostly unskilled and
provide a cheap source of labour,
making them an attractive option for
many greedy employers.
 Child labour, by virtue of being
cheap, increases the margin of
profits for such entrepreneurs whose
only objective is profit maximization
even if it comes at the expense of
ethics and good business practices

8. ILLITERACY
 Illiteracy, on the other hand,
makes it difficult for many
people to understand the
importance of education.
Illiterate people view education
as a preserve of the privileged in
the society.
 The view of life is seen among
illiterate parents who prioritize
children contributing to the
upkeep of the family over going
to school.

9. EARLY MARRIAGES
 Marrying at an early age is a
major contributing factor to
overpopulation. Young
parents are able to sire a lot
of children because they
remain fertile for a long
time.
 Having many children with
little or no resources to
support them leads to child
labour. Older children are
forced to work in order to
help their parents support the
family.

10. HIGH COST OF EDUCATION
 Quality education is expensive. To many
parents who live in abject poverty,
priority is given to providing food for
the family because education is too
expensive to afford especially when
there are many children to pay school
fees for.
 Instead of letting children stay at home
because there is lack of money to send
them to school, parents opt to have
them working as unskilled labourers to
help support the family.

11. HOW CAN WE SOLVE THE PROBLEM

12. FREE EDUCATION
 Free education holds the key to
eliminating child labour. Parents that
do not have money for school fees
can use this as an opportunity to
provide their children with
education.
 Mid-day meals schemes can also be
used as a motivating factor for
children whose parents can barely
afford a meal to learn. Even if they
will be attending school because of
the free meals, they will still be able
to learn and create a good education
foundation for themselves.

13. MORAL POLISHING
 Child labour should not be entertained at
all. It is legally and morally wrong.
 Factory owners, shopkeepers, and
industries among others should not employ
children. The society should be educated
on the negative impacts of child labour so
that it becomes an issue that is frowned
upon whenever it occurs.
 Many of the ills that go on in the society do
so because people turn a blind eye or fail to
consider their moral impacts. With this
kind of approach, cases of child labour will
greatly fall among our communities.

14. CREATE DEMAND FOR SKILLED AND
TRAINED WORKERS
 By creating the demand for skilled and trained workers, child labour cases will
reduce since almost all child labourers fall under the unskilled worker category.
It will lead to adult employment as the demand for skilled labour rises
 Establishing skill-based learning centers, vocational training centers, and
technical training institutions improves literacy and contributes to the
availability of skilled and trained workers in the job market.
 Creation of job opportunities by the government is also another way that cases
of unemployment can be reduced and household income for the population
increased.

15. AWARENESS
 Creating awareness about the illegality of
child labour can also help in stemming the
practice. Parents should be made aware that
sending their children to work has legal
ramifications and the law would take its
course if they are found to be aiding and
abetting this vice.
 Conducting a campaign to create awareness
about its harmful effects would eliminate the
practice. The government, together with non-
governmental organizations and the civil
society, can create a strategy to make such an
initiative a success.

16. EMPOWERMENT OF POOR PEOPLE
 Poor people are the most affected by child labour.
The poor living standards and financial
constraints sometimes make them unwilling
participants in this vice. Empowering poor people
through knowledge and income generating
projects would go a long way in reducing cases of
child labour.
 Parental literacy also plays an important role in
ensuring that the rights of children are upheld,
and minors are not used as a source of labour.
Empowering parents with this kind of knowledge
can create a positive change in the society and
encourage the shunning of child labour practices
in communities.

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