child labour day.What the hell are we thinking?

ok.sorry i am so stupid that i forgot to publish my post yeaterday.so here i am with something to say.
today is a very important day,the child labour day!
For the uninitiated ,Labour Day was started by the ILO(Internationa Labour Organisation) in I guess, 2002.It is held every year at 12 June.
I live in an impoverished country where people are forced to send their children to work.Most of them work in extremely harsh work conditions.They are commonly referred to as 'chhotas' or little ones.They hardly earn more than half a dollar a day . The last survey in 1996 figured out 3.3 million child labourers in Pakistan, out of which 2.4 million (73 per cent) were boys and 0.9 million (27 per cent) were girls. Male child labourers outnumbered female child labourers in both urban and rural areas, while the contribution of rural areas in child labour was about eight times higher than that of urban areas. This may be due to unpaid farm activities performed by family members in the rural areas, says the survey.The provincial distribution indicated that the volume of child labour in the Punjab was about 1.9 million, which was about three-fifths (60 per cent) of total child labour in the country.Out of the total 3.3 million employed children, one-third was literate from the formal system of education. Male child labour is more educated than female.This is really tragic as my country's potential economically active people of tomorrow have a reduced future rate of return as they have to quit education to get jobs.it forms a vicious circle of child labour as the child labourers would in future become parents who would also force their children to work.As you can see from the year of last survey,our government is not really bothered about stopping chid labour and more needs to be done in this respect
Here is what I think we can do as citizens of the society:

• We should not not buy from shops which employ children as salesmen
• We should immediately report to police any unethical or inhumane behaviour faced by children working in any type of business.
• Last and THE MOST IMORTANT,EDUCATION.If we are to get rid of this evil,we need education.It is one of the reasons I am so zealous that my country is educated.My steps to help in education in my country may be as small as helping impoverished students in studies in summers but they can become significant if all educated people start doing it.I think we need to create awareness among parents who send their chidren to work about the private benefits and external benefits of education.Education is truly a merit good,people do not realize its benefits to full extent.Last year, I did do an awareness programme in my village sponsored by an NGO so that people stop sending their chidren to work and get them quaity education and it helped! 5 out of 50 parents agreed to send their children to schools provided they were allowed to work in evening.Its a small and modest step,i know, but it counts and i can assure you it does.

SO PEOPLE PULL YOUR SOCKS AND START DOING SOMETHING! EVEN WHEN IT SEEMS SMALL AND INSIGNIFICANT TO DO.AFTER ALL,EDHI AND MOTHER TERESSA WERE NO BUSINESS MAGNATES SO PEOPLE,START SMALL AND DO IT WITH YOUR HEART!!!

MAN WOULDNT I BE GLOATING WHEN THE LITERACY RATE OF PAKISTAN INCREASES FROM THE MEAGER 49.9% IT IS NOW TO SOMETHING AT LEAST 90% LIKE IN DEVELOPES NATIONS AND I TRULY BELIEVE MOST OF OUR PROBLEMS WILL BE SOLVE BY THAT DAY.INSHAALLAH