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MALOLOS CITY: The Provincial Government of Bulacan
continues to collaborate with different agencies and institutions to
stop child labor in the province.
Lenie del Rosario of the
Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office said the province,
through the Provincial Committee on Child Labor, is beefing up its
campaign by tying up with other groups for funding and synchronizing
efforts to avert the occurrence of child labor.
In the previous years, the
International Labor Organization-International Programme for the
Elimination of Child Labor granted P5 million to the province to
support its programs to stop child labor.
Del Rosario said last year, the
province initiated the back-to-school program for the child laborers
and livelihood program for their family. She said these are two
measures they have implemented to stop child labor.
As indicated in the
community-based monitoring system, about 9,000 child labor cases
were reported, mostly from the towns of Sta. Maria, San Ildefonso,
San Miguel and Malolos city.
Most of cases reported were
engaged in the pyrotechnics industry.
Del Rosario, however, clarified
that the said cases do not fall under the worst form category of
child labor; nonetheless, the province is taking the report
seriously.
She cited street vending and
scavenging as among the worst forms of child labor.
 --PNA
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