Child labor 

"Eliminating Child Labor: A Call to Action"

 Child labor is the broadest term by which we can encompass attempting to deprive a child of their childhood. It robs the child of their untapped potential and taps into very little of the energy the child possesses. It is harmful to the child and affects both mental and physical development. It certainly scars the child for life. It is an immoral practice and disrupts the child's developmental process. The child is marked for life. The emotional pressure this puts on her is unimaginable. The other Children who work in the same facility are also subjected to enormous violence and housed in unfavorable conditions. As they grow up witnessing these atrocities, they also become harmful adults. A large proportion of these working children are mentally handicapped in adulthood. Some of them might even become criminals. So the implications of living in such conditions are enormous. The effects of such an environment are traumatic, to say the least. It interferes with the proper educational process these children deserve. Their school education often breaks off halfway. Pushed into the harsh world, the child finds it difficult to come to terms with it: forms of child labor include any form of debt bondage, akin to slavery and the like.

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