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Over 52pc children of poor families economically active

Says study

Staff Correspondent
Over 52 percent children of extremely poor families are economically active, which is higher than the national average, reveals a study.
The study also shows that only 60 percent girls and 50 percent boys from ultra poor households are attending schools while children are engaged in various livelihood options as part of their survival strategies.
Brae Development Institute (BDI) and Save the Children, UK (SCUK) jointly organised a workshop tided 'Poverty and Working Children' at Hotel Lake Shore in the city yesterday to disseminate the result of the study conducted over the period of five years on the trend of child labour and children involved in economic activities in Bangladesh.
The study was conducted as part of the SCUK programme on Poverty and Working Children in association with the European Commission.
The study also revealed that with a rise in safety net programmes (cash or asset transfers) and stipends for girls in the
schools, the number of children seeking employment outside their households is decreasing.
Net enrolment in primary schools may have achieved gender parity but differ ences remain in boy and girl children's accessibility to work and higher educa tion.it added.
The speakers at the workshop called for taking proper initiatives to eliminate child labour with a view to establishing human rights.
While presenting the research findings, Dr Ferdous Jahan, academic coordinator of BDI, spoke on different programmes conducted to eliminate child labour, employers' attitudes toward child labour, literacy and education and dropouts of the children among the ultra poor.
Advocate Sultana Kamal, executive director, Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK), said researches that are being conducted on this issue are worthy of appreciation, but they are yet to give recommendations to guide the policymakers to solve the problem.
Referring to various programmes on child rights, child labour and poverty
alleviation, she said most often different organisations work on such Issues, but they cannot go further due to many social, economic and cultural constraints.
She urged the authorities concerned not only to work with sympathy and empathy but also with commitment to abolish the practice of exploiting children in the country.
Dr Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury, state minister for women and children's affairs, said the present government is working on the issue to eliminate child labour.
“The draft on National Children Policy will soon be finalised in light of United Nations Charter on the rights of Child.” she added.
Prof Syed M Hashemi, director of BDI, said the research works should be used as instruments to safeguard the rights of the poor.
Such researches can create a vision to set a goal and a roadmap to solve the problems of the marginalised, downtrodden and ultra poor children in a country like Bangladesh, he also said.