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ILO trains 135 youths, now engaged in gainful activities
2007-12-18 09:40:46
By Correspondent Nasser Kigwangallah
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) through a special scheme for helping people out of worst forms of child labour has successfully trained 135 youth in the country. The youth are now engaged in various production and developmental activities.
The good news were revealed by ILO\'s scheme co-ordinator in the country, Leoncia Salakana, last week at the end of a one-day skill training project knowledge sharing and consultation workshop.
The workshop that ended in Dar es Salaam last Friday was aimed at highlighting issues on the elimination of child labour and the promotion of youth employment in the informal sector in the Sub-Saharan Africa.
Salakana said the workshop was intended at sharing information on what the three project countries - Kenya, Uganda and Ghana - have achieved so far; explore possibilities for future action and define the nature and framework of the action.
``At the end of the workshop we intend to come up with a common policy understanding on how best we could eliminate child labour in the informal sector through skills training,`` she noted.
She said the primary goal of the ILO today is to promote opportunities for women and men alike to obtain decent and productive work in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity at the same time stopping child exploitation of any kind.
Paschal Wambiya, ILO/IPEC Sub-Regional Coordinator for the Skills Project, Nairobi said a meeting has been convened to find a common strategy of ensuring that child labour in the informal sector is eliminated.
He said one of the strategies which have been proved successful is through youth skills training and raising awareness on part of the public and employers of children.
``By skills training, the youth are now engaged in useful productivity and earning money for themselves and their families,`` he said.
He warned employers not to engage the youth in jobs which are dangerous to their lives, exploitative and prevent them from going to school.
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