As Pakistan is an over-populated country where average number of children is
7 but resources are lying below the initial line so there is very big number
of children working for their own or family’s bread in their innocent
childhood and its main reason is poverty, lack of awareness and
sensitization. Majority is leading their lives below the line of poverty. It
made the parents very rigid and parents seemed that they considered their
children as a property having duty to make the parent’s life comfortable.
According to Geo NEWS a reputed TV channel, there is 45% of total school
going children are dropped out before their matriculation that increased the
number of those children that are known as working children and suffer child
labor.
Child labor is not just a labor; it includes child sexual abuse,
exploitation and enforcement. All of these three behaviors make them
psychologically ill and with the passage of time this one cause gives birth
to several social evils and causes which individually grow further.
This day-by-day increasing number is not only indicated the children’s right
violation but also producing an alarming situation because bondage and
exploitation fill them with anger and revenge so they are more likely to be
criminals, child abusers and drug addicts.
On the other hand people who are taking big work on very low rates from
children and running their business on these innocent shoulders so both
parents and employers have need to be advocated.
Unfortunately matter not ends here, even after sharing all of these things;
parents are not able to save their children due to lack of resources and
pretend to prove the realities fake. They insist to let them do what they
are doing.
Role of HFO
Human Friends Organization believes that ignored children can’t become a responsible nation in future so under age workers are specially considered and evening education centers are opened where quality education is provided according to the Govt. Text Board. These centers are named as