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SHAME! This is 13-year-old Chinnu's workplace

Last updated on: July 09, 2014 18:39 IST


Photographs: Chinnu

Can YOU put an end to this shame? Can WE together do it? No, for an answer is our collective SHAME!

The obvious answers would be: What can I do? What can ONE person do to fight/stop child labour?

To begin with:

  • STOP employing child labourers if you are doing it; if not, discourage others from employing them
  • STOP buying vegetables from vendors where children below 14 are employed
  • STOP buying goods and services that you know employ child labour

If this doesn't convince you about the crying need to stop child labour then read Chinnu's (name changed) story: In his own photographs and captions...

'This is my workplace, the vegetable market...' is how Chinnu captioned this photograph.

NOTE:

Photos in their campaign against Child Labour.

More than 200 million children worldwide are still in child labour and a staggering 115 million at least, are subject to its worst forms. In India, according to NSS0 66th Round (2009-10), there are 49.84 lakh (that is 16,000 less than 5 million) child labourers.

The CRY Click Rights campaign 'Open Your Eyes' invites you to overcome indifference to this grim reality and join CRY to help put an end to it.

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Chinnu's ambition...


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I am Chinnu, I am 13, and I dream of being an engineer one day.

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Like all small children Chinnu too has a pet :-)


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That's my pet goat

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He goes to school... but


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That is my school. I love going to school but I do not like to go to work...

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Life, after school hours


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A place where I go after school (this is Chinnu's workplace)... ideally I would like to play...

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Office, office


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A glimpse of my workplace...

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They share Chinnu's burden


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One of my co-workers...

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