Start date: 01/02/2019
End date: 31/12/2020
Project Categories:
Child Labour
Description:
TUM and PSEUM are developing a project against child labour in Kabwinja Education Zone, located in Dowa district (about 60 km from the main capital city of Malawi). 10 schools participate in the programme. This is a tobacco growing area whose majority of famers have contractual agreements with tobacco buying companies, hence sometimes increasing their work force by involving their children in their farms in order to meet their contractual obligations with the tobacco companies.
Goals:
To change the social norm about child labour and make education desirable and relevant in Kabwinja,
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 unions.
Activities:
Throughout the project period (2019-2020), TUM and PSEUM are:
- Training Kabwinja teachers on SCREAM methodology,
- Training Dowa District education Office, District Labour Office, TUM and influential community leaders to become trainers on issues related to child labour,
- Engaging pupils in the lobbying against child labour: through Children rights clubs, Children’s art competition,
- Engaging the school communities and community leaders in the struggle against child labour,
- Using the radio and newspapers to sensitize at national level on child labour,
- Developing posters and manuals to sensitize on child labour,
- Training the school governing structures and key community leaders on child labour.
Results:
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Contact:
Samuel Grumiau (EI): samuel.grumiau@ei-ie.org
Funding:
Mondiaal FNV, GEW Fair Childhood Foundation
