Help Eradicate Child Labor in Colombia

Thanks to their contributions, working children stay in school and do other activities that their artistic, cultural and sporting skills develop, so are out of child labor.

Volunteers play an important role in the task of eradicating child labor; during the period, they developed awareness activities and approach to the city of Monteria and Cartagena, making a career of observation where technologies such support is used to locate the places and customs we wanted to know, in addition to digital challenges, and the use of social networks.

Also, with 1,950 teenagers and young people from the cities of Monteria, Bogota, Cartagena, Quindio, Valledupar, La Loma, Codazzi and Medellin, it became the Entrepreneurship Route, which aims to develop the skills of social entrepreneurship, where young people learn to make social action projects in their own communities, according to their own interests, also strengthen teamwork, leadership and communication; to motivate adolescents and young people to consider their own ability to stay away from child labor.

In October, 50 families of the School of technology and communications, graduated from the workshops, as an alternative to lead parents and children to create joint alternatives to provide solutions to family projects with the use of technology and support their children in developing their tasks. This joint action with families helps sensitize parents to child labor ward off their children.

Finally, in November and December, the graduation ceremonies of 3,670 children who were able to withdraw from child labor were made, the children presented the results of their work with artistic, sporting and cultural events, which represented the development of their skills and qualities.

We will continue to work for children who are still in child labor manage to overcome this situation, so their cooperation is important. Thanks to the progress made so far!