School Gardens to Learn and Grow
A good diet is essential for school-aged children. School gardens are a sustainable way to provide children, in farming communities, with the nutritious meals they need to focus in school and teach them life skills.
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Brighter Futures in Mozambique
ECLT partners with iDE and FAA to reach over 32,000 children, farmers and families in Mozambique, focusing on communities that are at particular risk of child labour. The project's approach aims to improve access to and quality of education for children, support parents to strengthen and diversify their incomes, raise awareness of the dangers of child labour and support National Action Plans for lasting and wide-reaching impact against child labour.
Empowering Rural Youth through Model Farm Schools
Model Farm Schools are a sustainable and effective way to help young people improve their livelihoods by empowering rural youth to increase their profits, invest in diverse crops or livestock and, in some cases, become business owners. ECLT is committed to working with young people in agricultural communities where tobacco is grown, to build capacities and job skills relevant to local markets, helping them secure decent work.
Progressively realising commitments against child labour
In 2018, the Members of the ECLT Pledge of Commitment completed a second self-assessment on the progress made in their supply chains in the fight against child labour.
Support iDE cyclone relief for children and families in Mozambique
iDE Mozambique is calling for support to provide food, clean water, and medicine to children and families in the wake of devastating Cyclone Idai
Hazardous Child Labour in Agriculture
73 million children are doing work which is considered hazardous putting their health, safety, development or education at risk, much of which is done in agriculture.
Empowering Women & Girls: Simple Solutions
43% of all work in agriculture is done by women. Supporting education and skills training for girls and women causes a huge list of benefits for communities. It helps boost economic growth, curbs infant mortality, improves child nutrition, leads to healthier, smaller families.
Child Labour and Child Protection
With more than 152 million children doing work that puts their health, safety and development at risk, it is important for child protection systems to take these children’s needs into account. When child protection systems are set up to respond to the risk of child labour, they are better able to prevent, protect and respond to harm.
Learning Experience: Brightening the Prospects of Children in Guatemala
'By improving schools, the ECLT Foundation is brightening the prospects of children in Guatemala's largest tobacco-growing region' Tobacco Reporters' Timothy Donahue investigates ECLT's efforts in San Jose La Maquina.
