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ECLT Foundation staff were invited by the Zimbabwean Government to join in a critical and timely discussion on child labour in tobacco agriculture. The meeting helped build consensus among the key stakeholders responsible for eliminating child labour and resulted in several concrete commitments.
The ECLT Foundation joined together with the Government of Mozambique in a MoU to create a platform to combat child labour and strengthen the rights of children, particularly those in situations of poverty and vulnerability in rural areas where tobacco is grown.
World Day Against Child Labour 2018 focuses safety and health for young workers and fighting hazardous child labour. Young people above the legal age have the right to work, but their health and safety must be ensured. ECLT is supporting celebrations taking place in Tanzania were the Foundation has reached over 9,500 children since 2013.
The ECLT Foundation welcomes the recent report by Human Rights Watch, A Bitter Harvest, which highlights concerns of child labour and occupational safety in tobacco growing in Zimbabwe, where “tobacco is the country’s most valuable export commodity.”
These young people have the right to work in conditions that are safe and healthy. The ECLT Foundation promotes decent work in rural communities where tobacco is grown through close cooperation with farmers, labour inspectors and community leaders.
The ECLT Foundation is proud to work with our partners on the ground in Malawi to ensure that children in tobacco-growing communities have better access to education. Building and renovating schools is one way to help families make the choice to send their children to school instead of to wok in the fields.
Through our REALISE project in Uganda, the ECLT Foundation worked to ensure that families could send their children to school and not to work in the fields. From 2013 to 2017, ECLT worked with our implementing partners, UWESO, to reach children from over 18,000 households in the Hoima district.
Malawi is the country where the ECLT Foundation started our project work on the ground, working to fight the root causes of child labour in rural communities where tobacco is grown.
Over 13 years, the ECLT Foundation has removed more than 10,300 children from child labour and financially supported 4,900 parents in rural communities where tobacco is grown in Kyrgyzstan.
