Start date: 01/02/2019
End date: 31/12/2020
Project Categories:
Child Labour
Description:
The FESEN is developing a child labour free zone the Tchebebe commune, in Kazaboua district (central region, 270 km from Lome). There are four schools in this commune.
Agriculture work (for boys) and domestic work (for girls) are the main forms of child labour in the region. Cases of trafficking of children sent to work on farms in Nigeria and Ivory Coast have also been reported.
Goals:
To change the social norm about child labour and make education desirable and relevant in Tchebebe;
To increase school attendance and move towards a zone increasingly free of child labour, with a specific focus on girls education and gender equality;
To include local authorities, including the local education authorities, at every stage of implementation of the project, in order to ensure its sustainability and to strengthen the social dialogue;
To strenghten the education union
Activities:
Throughout the project period (2019-2020), the FESEN is
- training 28 local teachers and directors 13 union leaders on children rights, child labour and their role in the struggle against child labour;
- engaging pupils in the lobbying against child labour: through the setting up of one anti-child labour club in each school, through sport events such as football tournaments;
- providing remedial courses for ex-working children brought back to school;
- engaging the school communities in the struggles against child labour: through the training and setting up of village committees against child labour and village general assemblies;
- meeting the local education authorities and village leaders four times per year to discuss on the evolution of the project and lobby for the inclusion of child labour as key issue in the village development plans;
- using the radio and television to sensitize at national level on child labour.
Results:
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Contact:
Samuel Grumiau (EI): samuel.grumiau@ei-ie.org
Funding:
Mondiaal FNV
