The Alarming Increase of Child Laborers

“The rising number of child labor in the Philippines is an indictment of the government’s failure to positively address the population problem”, according to Albay Representative, Edcel Lagman.

The child laborers were deprived of education, that is why, they don’t have enough knowledge and  understanding of the realities of life especially when they had started a family of their own.

“The number of child workers in the Philippines has breached the 5 million mark comes in the heels of the aggravated maternal death rate of 162 deaths per 100,000 live births”, according to Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the International Labor Organization (ILO).

Lagman strongly believes that both maternal deaths and child labor will be reduced and prevented once the RH bill becomes a law. Also, according to him, “..the unremitting pregnancies of Filipino women in the marginalized sectors due to lack of information and access to reproductive health and family planning services and supplies largely contribute to the increase in child labor as numerous children are suffered to work in their tender years to augment family incomes”.

 

 

 

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Eradicate Child Labor

Directed by the principles protected in the ILO’s Minimum Age Convention No. 138 and the Worst Forms of Child Labor Convention No. 182, the ILO’s International Program on Child Labor (IPEC) facilitates to attain the abolition of child labor.

Nowadays, child labor became a normal way of engaging a child to illegal and dangerous works. It is because of financial needs in order to feed themselves and their family. Though they can help their parents, it is still an illegal act because instead of enjoying their childhood and enriching their physical, emotional and psychological capacities, they were deprived of it.

Government and non-government organizations were alarmed of it, thus, they still find solutions and help for them to abolish child labor. As a development communication student, we should also help campaign against child labor and let our voices be heard to help out the children engaging in child labor. Let us help them speak their minds and follow their hearts on where it should be.

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Child Labor in the Philippines

Child Labor means illegally engaging children aging below 18 years old in unsafe works or activities. Poverty is said to be one of the reasons why children are forced to work. Statistically, Philippines have 2.06 million children who are working in farms, mines and quarries. And as of October 2011, 5.49 million children are working, of which 3.028 million were child laborers and 2.462 million were exposed to dangerous labor.

Child Labor affects the child’s physical, mental and emotional development. Thus, the child becomes weak and could suffer to different kinds of ailments. Unfortunately, this serious, illegal act became rampant because of the large need of money to provide foods and other basic needs of the family. That is why a lot of government and non-government agencies are working together to stop the illegal child labor and to give a healthy and safe environment for the children to live in.

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