CRY- Child Rights and You will launch an anti-child labour campaign on 12 June, the international day against child labour. The Treat Right Project, urges people to send children to school, not work.
A select number of child labour-free restaurants in Mumbai city have joined the campaign. Now in its 2nd year, the Treat Right Project is an annual initiative where CRY partners with the hospitality sector to raise awareness among their patrons about the detrimental effects of child labour through communication material. All participating restaurants have volunteered to donate part proceeds from a patron’s bill towards eradicating child labour.
Patronise the treat right project partners to help eradicate child labour:
Two One Two Bar and Grill
Tamnak Thai
Swati Snacks
The Banyan Tree
JW Marriott
Gordon House Suites
Eat around the Corner
Water Stones Country Club & Spa
Renaissance Mumbai Convention Hotel & MEA
CRY’s volunteers are also partnering Municipalities in Mumbai, Thane and Pune to enrol children in school and mobilise parents to send their children to school, and not to work. A signature campaign has also been launched to enlist mass support for a charter of demands to be submitted to the city commissioner. Employees of ITC are part of this signature campaign.
“The official figures account for 9 million child labourers in India, a number we at CRY believe to be a gross underestimation,” said Puja Marwaha, CRY’s CEO. “India has the highest number of child labourers in the world despite a government ban on the practice. I invite Mumbaiites to support The Treat Right Project by patronising the partner restaurants and pledging to end child labour.”
CRY is campaigning in Juhu Galli, the Shantinagar slums in Kalwa and Wanowari slums in Pune to mobilise children and their parents into supporting children’s right to education, care and protection. CRY’s volunteers are explaining the importance of an education, and counselling parents to ensuring that these areas become child labour-free.
A signature campaign to garner support for better implementation of the Anti-Child Labour Act will be conducted on 13th June 2011 at four of Mumbai’s busiest railway stations – Andheri, Dadar, Shivaji Terminus and Thane.
