Colorful life with a colorless dot - “CHILD LABOUR."

we all are already familiar with this infamous brutal term, “child labour.” Children are deprived from their childhood and are physically, mentally, socially and morally exhausted. The scar of child labour is so deep in adolescents that it ruins their life traumatically. The data from UNECEF clearly shows that nearly 1 out of 10 children are subjected to child labour worldwide that is, 152 million little ones are the victims. 

Now, the very important question arises, where these children are thrown into, or in other way, where the innocence of a child is shattered. It is shattered in slavery, forced labour, trafficking, debt bondage, serfdom, even illicit activities like, prostitution, pornography, forced or compulsory recruitment for armed purposes. 

The robbery of infancy initiates from poverty. In order to provide financial aid to their family, children are sacrificed. The grave consequence is that they become drug addicts, it leads to premature ageing, malnutrition and depression.  To talk about data, legal age for labour initiates from 15 ( in developing countries 14) and hazardous work from 18. Unfortunately 46 countries have no rules to protect children below the age of 18 and the countries that have, laws are not implemented well. 

How can we say that the world is progressing, if childhood is endangered. The vicious cycle where instead of toys to play, children are given hammers to work, we need to break this chain. For once, just imagine not seeing sunshine in years, there are children who have not. They are not allowed to dream, basically making them a human without heart, robot if I can say so. Because, they move in command.

How to stop this? spreading awareness, implementing more stringent laws, sending more children to school, discouraging people to employ children in home, office, factories. Nelson Mandela rightly said “education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” I too believe that the world's most of the problem will be eradicated if people are provided with education.  

In conclusion, I would end by saying that how the way the practice of untouchability, sati pratha was abolished, same way if child labour will also be permanently removed, the world would then move onto the right track. Don't you think? 

 Stephen spender said,                                                                                 Break O break open till they break the town
And show the children to green fields, and make their world
Run azure on gold sands, and let their tongues
Run naked into books the white and green leaves open
History theirs whose language is the sun.  

To summaries this poem in my word, let the child breathe.