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Summary: A research carried out by AHURTOD-Cameroon
aiming to unfold factors which led to the
increase in child labour, abuse, trafficking and
rape around two suburbs in Buea, reveal that
those children most exposed to the streets
are the most affected.
Poverty has a direct influence on children's vulnerability as parents have to
send their children to work on farms. These children are often the sole
breadwinners of their respective families.
Children who are not attending schools regularly (or at all) due to poverty
are the most likely to be affected. Indeed, between 7:30 am - 2: 30pm (i.e
schools' opening hours) parents use children to get income for the entire
family given that selling is high between these hours. Since most of the
domestic work is done within this period, they are equally exposed to
domestic child labour by irresponsible guardians and parents.
It is for this and other reasons that AHURTOD-Cameroon has decided to
launch this project to permit the less privileged children to go back to
school, and to help remove them from work which is not only detrimental to
their health but also their well-being.
The project will consist in getting resources form interested individuals,
charities, donors, and organisations in the form of text books, exercise
books, pens, pencils, school bags, school uniforms, school fees, which will
be given out to these children for the academic year they are enrolled to in
local identified schools. They will then return them at the end of the
academic year to permit other less privileged children to benefit.
The whole project will be supervised and co-ordinated by AHURTOD and
has an ongoing nature. The project link is: www.backtoschool-
ahurtod.edu.tf