WE WILL NOT BE SILENT

Gitali Borpatra Gohain

MACJ

The worst victim of all sorts of abuse and exploitation among children are the one who are slave labourers what we call is the bonded labour system in India and child labourers-children who are trafficked, they are kidnapped, so they are most vulnerable to any sort of exploitation and all sort of diseases. So raising their voice was always very difficult in the beginning because nobody talked about those issues and slowly it gained momentum and people started realizing that these children, their voices have to be heard.

Talking about organizations- Bachpan Bachao Andolan or Save Childhood Organisation has been actively working over the past three decades in India as the Child saviour Organisation. They organized a program EDUCATION FOR LIBERATION LIBERATION FOR EDUCATION where they demanded the tougher trafficking laws and laws against child labour. They also invited the children that were being rescued from the small scale factories who were later sent back to their homes after counseling and rehabilitation. The minister promised quick action for this growing problem but such promises are hardly being fulfilled timely.

The main focus should be on

 PREVENTION- wherein we tell everybody that this happens, accept it. One needs to be vigilant, proactive in his/her approach when one talks about girls going missing, a boy is going missing or women getting into being trafficked.

ADVOCACY- with the government, with the stakeholders. That this things are happening and you should take a strong step in booking the trafficker and giving the means, spreading out the word.

LIVELIHOOD OPTIONS- for everybody who are there at the grass root level, who can earn and doesnot get into this hands of options of selling themselves or getting sold just to get money for surviving.

But this problem is such deep rooted in India that it will take long time to eradicate it if it goes by the same pace and that will engulf many more childhoods into this menace.