'Stop Child Labour - School is the best place to work' is a world-wide campaign run by organizations in six European countries in cooperation with partners in developping countries.

European partners

European partners in the campaign are members of the Alliance2015 network of development organizations Welthungerhilfe (Germany), Concern (Ireland), Cesvi (Italy), People In Need (Czech Republic), Ibis (Denmark) and Hivos (the Netherlands).

Dutch partners

Within the Netherlands the campaign is a joint initiative of Hivos, the Dutch Teachers Union (AOb), the India Committee of the Netherlands (ICN), the Federation of Dutch Trade Unions (FNV) and Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland.

Partners world-wide

'Stop Child Labour - School is the best place to work' also supports projects and facilitates exchange between partners that are working to get children out of work and into school in countries like India, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Ethiopia, Ghana, Morocco, Albania and Guatemala; countries where child labour is stil a fact of life for many children. These partners closely co-operate with governments, unions, teachers, parents and children. By providing better quality full-time education and social mobilization against child labour, children who once went to work every day are now going to school.

Inspiration

The first source of inspiration for the campaign has been the work of the MV Foundation, an Indian organization based in the state of Andhra Pradesh, that has been working with community groups,teachers, parents, employers and government officials in an effort to remove children from work and enrol them in school. Over the past 10 years, the MV Foundation has taken more then 600.000 children out of work and made 1.500 villages 'Child Labour Free'.

For more information visit the website of the MV Foundation.

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