Child Labour News

Social Change through the visuals

“Earning Child” a photo story by Vijay Joshi

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Four year child being used as a show piece at Spring festival of Panchkula(Haryana),India.This festival is Orgnised by the Government of Haryana .India has 20 million child labourers.This is without including employment in the unorganised sector of the economy such as domestic workers, agricultural workers and so on.Photo Courtsey/Dainik Bhaskar/VijayJoshi

Mud or Sweat of Children……..?

[Gallery not found]kids are working in the brickklin, in a village named NATWAL, in District Panchkula , Haryana. (apporx 40 km from Chandigarh). Making Bricks for people but who is going to lay their foundation stone for their development. How we can sleep in the houses which is being made by expolitating these innocent children . They are helping their parents in earning the livelihoods but no-one bothers about their future. With these bricks we make huge walls of differences like rich and poor, black and white etc.
Photographs By : GAURAV GAUR
Lecturer
Masters in Social Work
Panjab University, Chandigarh.

VARIED TASTES OF SUGARCANE : SWEET OR SWEAT……..?

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These pix have been taken from the fields of Sugarcane. The crop has already been cut but these children are finding the bits and pieces of the left over sugarcane. The rest of the waste they will collect to ignite fire and can be used as a fuel to cook their food.

Photographs By : GAURAV GAUR
Lecturer
Masters in Social Work
Panjab University, Chandigarh