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Call
to action against child labor
New
Hope Zimbabwe
December 01, 2008
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New Hope Foundation's
aim is the progressive reduction of numbers of children and women
suffering because the HIV & AIDS pandemic through the elimination
of child labour country-wide, with the eradication of the worst
forms (Child Trafficking) an urgent priority it works to mobilise
public opinion against the broader injustices contributing to child
labour, through its efforts to end child labour, it condems any
system that require children to work, both at the regional and national
levels, through exerting pressure to achieve political changes and
jointly developing policies and actions to achieve a unified response
to child labour, illiteracy and poverty.
Since it began
operations in 2000, New Hope Foundation has worked to achieve results
in several ways: through mobilising of public opinion against the
broader injustices contributing to child labour, urging the Zimbabwe
Government to ratify and enforce existing laws and put pressure
to use national and international resources to support education
for all children.
New Hope Foundation has country-wide programmes which promote policy
reform, and putting in place concrete measures to end child labour
so as to reduce new cases of HIV & AIDS in children; through
awareness raising campaigns intended to change social attitudes
and promote ratification and effective implementation of ILO child
labour Conventions. These efforts have resulted in hundreds of children
being withdrawn from work and rehabilitated or prevented from entering
the workforce.
Global march against child labor Zimbabwe initiative 2007
In its effort to end
child labour and Trafficking in Zimbabwe, Last year 2007, New Hope
Foundation, with support from The Global March Against Child Labour
Organisation based in India, successfully Organised and hosted a
physical march from Harare to Plumtree on child labour and HIV &
AIDS, beginning on the 1st of December 2007 to 31 December 2007
covering the provinces of Harare, Mashonaland West, Midlands, Matabeleland
South and Bulawayo. A total of 541 km, with One hundred (150) people
involved in the march, covering the entire 541 kms. Participants
were New Hope Foundation staff, Global March Organization representative(s),
child parliamentarians, children from the communities where child
labour is rife, representatives from various child focus humanitarian
organizations and some government departments.
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