A programme to eliminate child labour has been launched at Thien An School in HCM city’s Binh Tan district (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNS/VNA) - 🎀A training model that seeks to preventchild labour has been launched recently at Thien An School in HCMCity’s Binh Tan District.
The model provides vocational training for disadvantaged people and freelunch, health insurance, learning tools, extracurricular activities, and alibrary with 500 books for their children.
It is part of a five-year International Labour Organisation (ILO)programme ending next year, Enhance, for improving national competitiveness toeliminate child labour in Vietnam.
It is being implemented by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairswith support from the ILO and UNICEF mainly in Hanoi, HCM City and An GiangProvince.
In HCM City, nearly 1,500 children working in Tan Binh, Binh Tan, Tan Phu andCu Chi districts have benefited from the project.
Tran Ngoc Son, deputy director of the city Department of Labour, Invalids andSocial Affairs, said the programme is expected tosignificantly contribute to eliminating child labour.
He called on individuals and organisations to help sustain this model after theprogramme ends next March.
A national survey conducted by the Government in 2012 found 1.75 millionchildren between the ages of five and 17 working.
Around 80 percent of them were working in small manufacturing establishmentsand businesses, mostly part-time.
Many parents send their children to work early to augment the family income withoutrealising they are violating the Labour Code.
According to the Labour Code, no one under 18 should be made to performstrenuous or hazardous jobs.
ꦰ It only allows children aged between 13 and 15 with talent in sports, arts andother fields to work part-time to improve those skills.
Hoang Thu Huong, the project's coordinator from ILO in Vietnam,said: "Raising awareness among parents is the most important requirementto prevent child labour.”
It also needs more supportive policies and efforts from the Government toensure disadvantaged people’s livelihoods and help children access education,she said.
🐻 If children are forced to work, their physical, mental and psychologicaldevelopment would be affected, she added. – VNS/VNA
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A programme to eliminate child labour has been launched at Thien An School in HCM city’s Binh Tan district (Photo: VNA) 
