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Title of the project:
“Child
Labour Rehabilitation Centres (CLRC), Re-insertion of working
children through informal education and skills training in
Punjab-Pakistan”
Duration of the project (in month):
original duration 36 months-total allowed duration: 56 months
Target beneficiaries &/or target groups
(if different) (including numbers of men, women and children):
total: 301 children 1. CLRC Charar: 105 children (male 66, female
39), 2.CLRC Satiana: 101 children (male 65, female 36), 3. CLRC
Pattoki: 95 children (male 52, female 43)
Overall Objective:
To raise awareness to fight child labour
The kinds of educational and psycho-social activities as well as
skills training for child labourers proposed under this project are
tailored to promote reduction of poverty among one of the most
disadvantaged population groups, i.e. children. Imparting marketable
skills is designed to help the young trainees, by preparing them for
(self-)employment once they leave the CLRC, to meet their own basic
needs and contribute to meeting those of their family and close
relatives. In addition to material satisfactions accruing from
subsequent (self-) employment, their quality of life will be
enhanced by greatly improved individual and group self-confidence,
autonomy and thus capacity for further development. Involvement of
the community and its sensitisation to the problem of child labour,
demonstrating the need of a healthy development of children,
including their education and training, should help bring about a
change of attitude for not taking child labour as a “fatal incident”
without possibility of remedy.
Specific Purpose
Reinsertion of working children through Skills training and informal
education in three districts of the Punjab province in Pakistan.
Achieving this specific purpose has enabled children to have access
to a healthy, child-adequate development and to educational and
training facilities adjusted to their specific needs.
Since its establishment the CLRC project developed a steady pace of
improvement. It is an exciting prospect to consider that the first
graduates have completed their primary education. It is envisioned
that the centres will serve a more extensive role in the future,
places that can develop into high schools, skills and vocational
training centres.
Following activities were under taken to achieve the required goals.
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Three Child Labour Rehabilitation Centres as focal points for
child labour rehabilitation established.
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Informal basic education programs established.
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Life skills and skills training opportunities are available.
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Psycho-social rehabilitation programmes in place.
The commitment evidenced on the part of PCYO / HOPE’87 promises a
brighter future for the children attending the CLRCs. The target
goals of the project are being met. The project has highlighted the
important issue of child labour and assisted through practical
measures to alleviate this problem.
The three CLRCs established at Charar, Satiana and Pattoki offer a
model that could be replicated in other parts of Pakistan. The
advice and monitoring efforts given to this EC-co financed project
by the Secretary General of HOPE’87, the HOPE’87-Pakistan/Islamabad
Representative and the Austrian Ambassador to Islamabad, H.E.Dr.
Günter Gallowitsch, as well as Senior Officers of the European Union
Delegation in Islamabad were much appreciated and taken into account
in adapting the project.
The project, despite constraints and concerns, is running on the
whole satisfactorily. The children who are initially admitted were
in shabby dress, had pale and fearful faces and looked confused and
mentally disturbed. This project has provided a smile on the faces
of the children. This project has given them “HOPE” and now they are
looking forward to do well in life. The mind set of these children
and of their families is changing.
It could be said with confidence that not only 301 students of CLRC,
but also their families and the neighbourhoods are changing thus
creating a multiplier effect. The three CLRCs offer a model that
could be replicate in other parts of Pakistan with confidence and to
the satisfaction of the supporter of this humanitarian cause, giving
a smile and hope to the underprivileged children.
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