Kris Ballentos is dragged by ‘Fat Cat’ Allan Cavanagh at the protest down Grafton St. collecting petitions for Concern to highlight World Day against Child Labour today (10-6-05). One out of six children in the world today is involved in child labour, doing work that is damaging their mental, physical and emotional development. Concern call on global leaders to endorse their promise to provide quality, free and compulsory education to all children globally by the year 2015. Pic Mac Innes
I’ll be giving a workshop to transition year students tomorrow on the issue of child labour. It’s a heavy issue, but I try to make it informative and with an emphasis on action (like many similar issues the sheer weight of it can be overwhelming). I’ll post more on it tomorrow, hopefully I’ll have some images ready as well.