End Child Labor

Can you picture a six-year-old child laboriously lifting weighty bricks, toiling through the night amidst dust, noxious chemicals, and flames?

For countless children throughout Nepal, this is the harsh truth they face.

With the rapid urbanization sweeping across the nation, the count of children engaged in perilous work has surged. In Southern Nepal alone, a staggering 34,593 children reside in brick kilns with their families, enduring these challenging circumstances.

Sansar's "End to Child Labor" project is dedicated to liberating children from unlawful labor and granting them access to education, thereby paving the way for a brighter future. To achieve this noble goal, the project addresses the extensive factors that compel these children into exploitative and perilous work.

This multifaceted approach involves:

1. Providing support to families so that they do not face financial hardship when their children attend school and cease working.

2. Fostering a shift in community attitudes, eradicating the acceptance of child labor and encouraging the reporting of such instances.

3. Enhancing educational opportunities for Dalit communities and promoting the value of school attendance.

4. Pursuing legal action against factory owners to ensure justice is served and to deter the further employment of child laborers.

In December 2022, the project successfully concluded its pilot initiative, which provided education and family support to 20 children hailing from brick factories. During the hours their parents were occupied with work, these children attended classes at a local school, introducing them gently to formal education. Starting in September 2022, these children have been fully enrolled in the local school to ensure their integration into the community and prevent any form of marginalization.

They're providing assistance to families by supplying them with rice and other essential items, equivalent in value to what the children used to earn at the factories. This support is aimed at ensuring that the parents can afford to keep their children enrolled in school, critical to the long term success of the program.