Friday, 23 February 2007

Bonded Labour – The Born to be Free project

Most of the people in Pernambut and its surrounding villages live BELOW the poverty line. Hurried and struggling parents ‘mortgage’ their children into bonded labour to receive cash loans for family needs. Children are employed mainly in manufacturing industries, such as making beedis (hand-rolled cigarettes) and fireworks. They are bonded in to labour until the family’s debt, plus interest, is fully repaid. The employers often physically or mentally abuse the children that work for them and force the children to work in unhealthy conditions for little or no pay.

The Born to be Free Project by World Vision releases children from bonded labour and provides a ‘transit school’ for child labourers who have missed out on education and skills for a long time. This project also helps disadvantaged families find alternative ways to raise income and raises awareness of children’s rights in their villages.

My Target for these children is $350. Please help out by donating some money at my Rampant Homepage!

Thursday, 15 February 2007

About Hope For Kids

Hi, I’m Hope and I am fundraising for Children at Risk.

Where will your money will go?
The Born to be Free Project in India.

Cambodia’s Neava Thmey Centre.

The Street Children project in Bangladesh.

The Mongolia Street Children project.

Who will you be helping?
Children who are sold into bonded labour to repay debts.

Providing skills, training and education for children rescued from bonded labour.

Offering income generating activities to the whole family as alternatives to child labour

Rasing awarness of child rights in villages.

Health care, counselling and skills education for street children.

Think about it – Being abused, exploited and endangered is something you’d never wish for a child. It’s a reality though. Children in our global community ARE being exploited – Leaving them without Hope.

Here are the facts:
More than 150 million children around the world are street children – They are orphans or have been abandoned, abused or neglected.

More than 210 million children aged 5-14 go to work every day, instead of school.

25 million children around the world today are victims of armed conflict. Some are refugees, others are abducted and forced to become solders or worse…

My Target for these children is $350. Please help out by donating some money at my Rampant Homepage!

Hope