Incident Reports

Child laborers reestablished within the family

2016-11-09

Bagmati, Chitawan, Chitwan National Park

Ratna Nagar Industry and commerce federation, which has been operating child protection and child labor minimization program in the district, has reestablished 195 child laborers within their family after rescuing them from different hotels and lodges of Ratna Nagar on November 9. The federation has rescued 74 child laborers and admitted them to school and 121 children were provided with financial support paving their way to go to school. Chairperson Gyan Bahadur Bisural of the federation said that the environment for the children to go to school is created so that the parents can do their earnings. The federation has also created the environment for 121 children’s families whose financial state is poor. The federation has opened an account for poor children and deposited Rs 3000. Ratna Nagar Municipality has been campaigning to make the municipality child-labor-free until 2017 and child-friendly until 2019 with support from UNICEF according to branch chief Tejendra Lamichhane of the Social development office.

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