By Judithe Registre | Program Director
For the past three years, your support has been building a foundation in communities for girls in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India, a country with more child laborers than anywhere else in the world. In this region, child labor affects girls far more than boys—but your support is changing the landscape for girls and their families, who often feel they have no choice but to send their children to work.
Your contributions have helped build a vibrant and comprehensive support network made up of government leaders, labor union members, and families who, by working together, are changing the cultural attitudes about child labor. Strengthening and boosting the education system and keeping girls and boys safely in school is the most effective way to prevent child labor. Vocational training also provides youth with stable and productive alternatives and opportunities.
Child forums, like the one pictured above, are critical to strengthening girls’ leadership and participation skills so that they can truly create change for the better in their own lives and communities. Your gifts take girls out of the labor market and puts them back on the path to learning. In school, children can be children. They can live out their childhoods in safe and supportive learning environments and fulfill their dreams and aspirations.
Thank you for playing a critical role in preventing child labor in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
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