World Day Against Child Labor

Cross post from Peter Lavina

I just came from a march to mark the World Day Against Child labor in Davao City. More than 600 children, parents and anti child labor advocates joined the march around the city's main streets.

A culminating program was held infront of City Hall if only to emphasize the need for serious government action on this global problem that also reared its ugly head here.

Thanks to our media colleagues for the coverage - GMA7, Mindanao Times, ABS-CBN and Sunstar. We need the mass media to raise the level of awareness of our people on this regard.

Here I helped arranged for a television crew interview Eliza Apit of the National Coalition Against Child Labor in Commercial Agriculture.

Children are supposed to be in school not in any quarry or construction or karaoke bar or plantations.

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