Kinderpostzegels actively involved in Stop Child Labour Campaign

Partners world-wide
'Stop Child Labour - School is the best place to work' is a world-wide campaign run by organizations in six European countries in cooperation with partners in developing countries. Within the Netherlands the campaign is a joint initiative of Hivos, the Dutch Teachers Union (AOb), the India Committee of the Netherlands (ICN), the Federation of Dutch Trade Unions (FNV) and Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland. 

'Stop Child Labour - School is the best place to work' also supports projects and facilitates exchange between partners that are working to get children out of work and into school in countries like India, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Ethiopia, Ghana, Morocco, Albania and Guatemala; countries where child labour is stil a fact of life for many children. These partners closely co-operate with governments, unions, teachers, parents and children. By providing better quality full-time education and social mobilization against child labour, children who once went to work every day are now going to school.

Inspiration
The first source of inspiration for the campaign has been the work of the MV Foundation, an Indian organization based in the state of Andhra Pradesh, that has been working with community groups,teachers, parents, employers and government officials in an effort to remove children from work and enrol them in school. Over the past 10 years, the MV Foundation has taken more then 600.000 children out of work and made 1.500 villages 'Child Labour Free'.  Kinderpostzegels supports the work of MV Foundation.
 

More information: stopchildlabour.eu