The People’s Rural Education Movement (PREM) in association with the Educo, an international organisation, held a district-level webinar on the occasion of the World Day against Child Labour on Saturday. The webinar, attended by 145 participants from across the State, was focused on child labour issues, their causes, effects and solutions. While PREM director Dr Jacob Thundyil stressed the need on the importance of education and its role to stop child labour, Educo representative Ashish Nagori explained the context and background of children problems with statistical presentations.
Child Protection Ambassador Sushma Pradhan had presented her experience of the problems of children in her area, how children are working as labourers at an early age, child marriage is the result of which they are losing their childhood. The webinar was attended by district officials and child rights activists.