CLARA – Concern-Lane Alliance for Rural Areas
CLARA, assessing the extremely poor conditions has initiated a working children program with special focus on their education. This is indeed a challenging task to motivate the parents to take their child away from job and to send them to school. This is a fact that, parents feel themselves economically strengthened with the amount their child is earning. But CLARA believes that education is the basic right of a child and above all he/she cannot be deprived of this right.
For many children, school is not an option. Education can be expensive and some parents feel that what their children will learn irrelevant to the realities of their everyday lives and futures. In many cases, school is also physically inaccessible or lessons are not taught in the child’s mother tongue, or both.
The animators of CLARA has adopted a different way to teach these children. They approach students at their work place to give them lessons. To make it more practical, the involvement has been ensured, that they also know what their child is getting. This method has brought about positive results, because it does not disturb the work and the same time they are being educated. These children are the future of the society, who need to become useful citizens and to play their role.
Our target children are
- In households — as domestic workers
- In factories — making products such as matches, fireworks, and glassware
- On the street — as beggars
- Outdoor industry: brick kilns, mines, construction, leather factories, Auto workshops, Bicycle repairing shops.
- In restaurants and tourist resorts.
- In sexual exploitation
