Child Labour & Social Protection

Since inception in 2000, Platform for Labour Action has been contributing to stopping child exploitation. Our work started with a focus on child domestic work and has over the years expanded to cover other forms of child labour.

Our program on stopping child exploitation through Education, Skills development and Livelihoods addresses child exploitation and abuse in its different forms encompassing children in armed conflict, domestic work, children engaged in urban informal sector, commercial agriculture, and victims of trafficking amongst others.

What We Do

• Withdraw, rehabilitate, and reintegrate children into school — both primary and secondary
• Enrol children in vocational training and community-based apprenticeship programs, internships, and industrial training
• Provide business start-up kits, entrepreneurship training, and livelihood support for vulnerable households
• Strengthen Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) and support income-generating activities for vulnerable households
• Conduct public awareness and mind-set-change campaigns to prevent child exploitation
• Advocate for legal and policy reforms and enactment at the local and national level
• Promote business and human rights compliance to protect from exploitation
• Provide legal aid services to exploited, abused and violated children as well as their households