World Day Against Child Labour Organised By CRY in Bangalore

On the occasion of World Day against Child Labour, Child Rights and You (CRY), one of India’s leading NGOs, organised an event on Church Street to raise awareness on the issue. CRY created an experiential zone to make people feel in minutes the life of children living under theclamp of labour.

People walked into a mobile room where a similar atmosphere of a factory was recreated. To provide realism to the milieu, sight, sound, and smell of the labour environment was also mimicked.

“Changes are real when people feel for the cause. On this World Day against Child Labour, we wanted to make people experience the harsh conditions few children have to go through during their childhood. Lack of education has a direct implication on a child making them more vulnerable in being a child labour. This need to stop and the motive of this event is to expose the truth of labour to the general public”, said Suma Ravi, Regional Director, CRY South.

Child Labour is increasingly being considered as an acceptable norm in the society as people tend to see it as a means for underprivileged families to make ends meet. There are 10.13 million child labourers between 5-14 years in India (Census 2011), out of which Karnataka has 4,21,345 and Bangalore has 66,622 number of working children.