Eye to Eye with Child Labour

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Eye to Eye with Child Labour

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Introduction

• Millions of children are still denied their
  rights to proper healthcare, education, food and
  protection.
• Save the Children fights for these rights.
• Eye to Eye with Child Labour is an educational
  project which has given working children in
  Pakistan, Bolivia, India and South Africa cameras
  to tell us about their lives. These photos allow
  us to see the world through their eyes and
  understand some of the reasons why they work.
• Eye to Eye believes we can learn from others,
  including young people who live in far away and
  places quite different to England.

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Where the Eye to Eye participants come from
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The project materials photos and stories by
working children

• How did we collect them?
• Photos were taken by the children themselves
  after training, in Pakistan, India, Bolivia and
  South Africa
• 67 children, all from Save the Children project
  areas
• Over two thousand photos in all were taken
• Children gave commentary about the photos and
  their lives

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Using cameras

• Anything new attracts me and thats why I am
  very happy to come for the photography classes.
  We can store a slice of time through photography
  which is not to be discarded just like that.
  Hence in a few seconds we can capture the things
  we like and preserve the memories. There is no
  end to learning, and these are small steps to
  learning new things.
• Jaya, India

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This boy has climbed the tree to pluck leaves
for the animals to eat. I also climb trees. One
boy in the village saw a snake up the tree - now
he never wants to climb trees again.
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Doing domestic choresMithrio Bhatti, Pakistan
This is my sister Geeta. Girls are 11 years old
when they start sewing. She spends many hours
sewing. Suresh, Mithrio Bhatti
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Working to pay off a parents debtMithrio
Bhatti, Pakistan
She weaves about 8 hours a day. She should be
able to go to school but because of her parents
financial difficulties they dont send her,
even though there is no school fee. From the
looms she earns money whereas from school she
earns nothing. Geeta B., 12, Mithrio Bhatti,
Pakistan
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Working because of false promises of a better
life Kolkata, India
Jasmina is a little girl. She left her parents
at a tender age to work as a domestic help. Her
master and mistress do not give her any
education. In this picture Jasmina is washing the
utensils of her masters home and I took her
picture. She became very happy. Mumtaz, 13,
former domestic worker, Kolkata
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Working for food and educationLlallagua, Bolivia
Juan is eight years old and comes from the rural
area. He works helping his father to sell
potatoes so that at home they can at least have
their daily meal and he can attend a school.
Ivan 17, market worker, Llallagua, Bolivia
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Working to be independent and to studySanta
Cruz, Bolivia
He is a young worker who maintains himself on
his own. He is a good friend. He likes working at
the docks. He makes good money, and this allows
him to continue his studies. He likes what he
does. Jorge, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
NATS - groups for young workers to claim their
rights
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Crossing borders due to povertyMusina, South
Africa

• I work here as a dagga boy We are three boys
  working for a builder that is a South African I
  dont know how much he will pay me. It is very
  hard work. We are digging foundations for a
  house.
• Emmanuel, 15, Musina, South Africa

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Save the Children aims to

• Reduce poverty
• Stop the worst forms of child labour
• Raise awareness that not all types of work are
  harmful
• Improve childrens working conditions and lives
  by focussing on their rights
• Improve services (like schools, drop-in activity
  centres and health care) for working children
• Ensure that working children take part in making
  the decisions that will affect them.

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• For more information please visit our website
  at www.savethechildren.org.uk/eyetoteye