What is ILAB doing to combat child labor internationally?
• Currently, ILAB has a portfolio some 55 active child labor projects in over 50 countries worth more than $200 million. These projects seek to remove children from the exploitative work situations and provide them with rehabilitation services and educational opportunities. Projects also seek to raise public awareness about the problem and to prevent child labor from occurring in the first place. • Since 1995, ILAB, through funding for the International Labor Organization’s International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor and over 40 other organizations, has provided approximately $600 million to support efforts in over 80 countries around the globe to withdraw children from exploitative work. • In FY 2008, ILAB obligated over $58 million to 6 organizations to support efforts to combat exploitive child labor around the world. Together, these grants will withdraw and prevent more than 100,000 children from entering exploitive labor through the provision of education and other ser
