How does the MV Foundation in India tackle child labour?
The MV Foundation (MVF), an organisation form the South Indian state Andhra Pradesh, is working with community groups, parents, teachers, employers and civil servants to get children out of work and into school. The MVF programme is based on the principles: every child out of school is a child labourer and all children should attend formal, full-time education. The problem of child labour is tackled by the MVF in the following steps: The process starts with the creation of a norm that child labour is unacceptable and that children should go to regular daytime schools. Awareness is created on the risks of child labour and the assets of education. The whole community is involved in this process. By door-to-door visits or in a theatre people are encouraged to take the children out of work and send them to schools. – During information meetings it is showed to the parents that there are other, better solutions than child labour for additional family income than child labour. Parents are su
