Child Labor - Baghban S3E11 | How to deal with it ? | Humanity Calls

So do these parents not understand the importance of education or do they know it but they compromise on it. Boys work more or girls work more. If the parents know the importance of education, then are they forced to deprive the children of education and send them to work. If there is awareness, then despite that does it not happen that education is not affordable. In our country, a child who has been put into child labour, what is the effect on him/her? There is a high possibility that these children become criminals later on. Are there no such raid laws that can be checked where the children are doing minor work? What law is available? What kind of laws do we have to control this? Do we register our children on the day of work or not? Our children have to work anyway. What practical steps should be taken at the public level to stop or reduce this? So should a child under 10 years of age be put to work? Is this ethically correct? Is it not necessary that a child should be put to work? Take initiative and run a public service campaign, run a public awareness campaign. It is necessary to stop or reduce this. Baj Billa Shaitan Razi Bismillah Rahman Rahim Assalam Walekum Nazreen Once again in the program Bagh Paan, Khushamdid, giving education is one of the important duties and responsibilities of a father and most of the parents also carry out this work, some with great difficulty and some with less importance, but at least they send their children to schools for studies, but there are some parents who are completely careless about this and they do such injustice to their children that they deprive them of education, not only that they do not let them get education or they do not go to get education, but instead of education they put small children to some work in the town so that it can become a source of livelihood for them also. This is correct in its place that when the work is bad, then a person needs a business to run his house, but this does not mean that That a person should be born in a wrong way or should go towards a business. Just as doing any haraam work is not permissible in any case, similarly, depriving children of education and putting them to work is also considered as one of the haraam works because you have deprived children of their right to education. We do not care about rights. We must have committed many atrocities on our children which we do not even realize. We probably do not even count them. We are doing wrong things and violating their rights. The responsibility of parents is first of all the survival of children, giving them protection, giving them safety and security, then education, after that the religious rights which are imposed on children are on parents with regard to children, like arranging their marriage, getting them married at the right place, doing good deeds when it is needed. All these things are among the duties of parents. Teaching them good morals, teaching them respect, keeping them safe from every evil. But if instead of this, If parents put their children to work for the sake of their children, then this is not justified. Today, according to the statistics available in Pakistan, about 8 million children are involved in child labour, who are doing some work in some way or the other. This is about 8 to 10 percent of the total child population of the country. Today, we are going to discuss on this topic that what is child labour, what are its causes, how to stop it. And like always, today also we have a special guest with us, Madam Ansa Asim Sahiba, who is the President of SKV Foundation and she also runs a charity school for children, in which she has made accommodation for such poor children who cannot study. Insha Allah, in this program, we will be pleased to discuss with you on this topic, which is perhaps not talked about so much, but because it is related to children and our channel and this program are related to the upbringing of children, therefore, every topic which is related to any child. We will discuss here if we keep it. Insha Allah, we will ask you a few questions on this. So, first of all, I would like to know from you what is the law in the country regarding child labour. Upto what age is the child not allowed to do any job or any work that the parents do not make him do. If we talk about our own community, then we want that our child should never do any such work that we do not want to do. So, other children, as soon as they open their eyes, a broom is handed over to them. So, legally, I think, even in Islam, it is there that you should educate your child for 10 years and after 10 years, you give him that responsibility. So, the period of 10 years from birth, the education of the child is to be given to him with a lot of love, in which he is learning. If during that time, a broom is handed over to him or he is handed over to other people, then you do not educate him, the parents do not educate him, his education is done by other people. From their words, from their taunts, from the things that they do not do with their children, that is, in general we can say that a minor, whom they classify, Islam has its own definition of minor and Islam has its own definition, somewhere it is 18 years, somewhere it is 16 years, so making a minor work is not legally permitted and it is also considered a crime by law, there can also be a prosecution for this if someone complains, but there is child labour in such a large number in our country, often if you go on the streets, you can see children begging somewhere, so what is the basic reason why these children work like this, what is the reason, what would be the basic reasons for this, actually it happens that first of all our economic status has become very low, people do not have two meals a day, the person whose stomach is not full cannot send anyone to school, he cannot send his child to school, so what does he do, he says I am earning myself but I am not able to survive, so I will send my child also for 10-15 Hajj or even I can get them employed at someone's house for Rs. 5000 and they will do their work and our livelihood will continue. The other thing in this is that they get some money from it and if the same people are harassing them in any case, then they say that this is the way to salvation for us that if we send them to work in their house, then in return they will not harass us in any way, we will live our life comfortably, we will remain settled where we are, our children will keep working for them, but they are not looking at that long term process that what role are they playing in their upbringing, what will that child do when he grows up, do these parents not know the importance of education or they know but they compromise on it, some know how important education is and many do not know because education is awareness, if they were aware, they would never have sent their child to someone's house or to a shop or for child labour, so there is a lack of awareness in our country, right? Not only among them but also among people like us, when the same people come to our houses to work with their children, then why don't we create awareness for them that their child should be in school or that he should be seen working in our house, do boys work more or girls work more, there is a lot of gender discrimination, so where boys are working, there are problems of girls, like you will see boys working at tandoors and puncture shops, but in the houses of mothers, their daughters go with their mothers to work, so there are as many girls working as there are boys, in my opinion, the dominance of girls is also more because girls are made to work and they are married at the age of 13 to 14 years because they cannot bear the burden after that and a big reason for this is also that they themselves are not so strong that they can raise their children, so they think that they will get them married, so among girls, here in our society there is also a concept that girls If one does not get education, it does not matter because of which instead of the girl sitting at home, if she gets some work, she will also get income, this is also a reason, but what I was asking earlier, that if the father knows the importance of education, that the child should be educated, he should be educated, then in that condition also he becomes so helpless due to poverty that he deprives his child of education and sends him to work, see, nobody wants that his child should work in somebody's house or that someone should say bad things to his child, when I have been in this sector for 8 years, when we were working in this direction, it was not that they did not want their children to study, they used to go begging, they used to work in houses too, when we created awareness in them that you should not be dependent on anybody, you have not come in this world to do this in front of anybody, you should become a giver, you should try, I told you once, I told you twice, I counselled them a little, but they backed out from begging and started working in other people's houses. Or with other things also, we just lack awareness that they do not know what they can do, they think that if the child is not able to study or we do not have enough jobs, then what option do we have, they think that this is the only option, if he cannot do it then put him to work, if there is awareness, then despite that does it not happen that education is not affordable here, not here, there are many such as we had started, we have 90 such children in Lahore who were earlier in child labour, now they also study in school, their parents, it is not that their parents did not resist, their children also used to go with them, they were getting money, they had sold their children for 10-10 thousand for the whole year, but after counselling them, we realised that we can change it, this trend which has started can be changed through counselling and with these things, education in Pakistan has increased so much that as you told, 8 million students are in child labour, not just this much, there are many such NGOs are working, just like we work, there are many NGO sectors, there are many government schools too which are imparting education and what cannot be found after searching, is this not hereditary, for example, there is a person who has worked since childhood, now he has grown up, he too has children, he also thinks that whatever I have been doing, my children should also do the same or this is very less, the element of hereditary, whatever he has done, he does not want his children to do this work, he should study, it is hereditary, there is a very large number, it is hereditary, like if you look at the people of Jugi, their generations after generations have been begging or generations after generations they are in child labour and they learn themselves, they feel that this is the best, they feel that this is hard work, I asked a question to an aunty that aunty why is your child not coming to school, we are providing everything for free, still why is your child not coming to school, don't you feel like that your child should study and do something else, should beg then And I said that you should earn by working hard, then she said that it is hard work, she told me that I should go and earn by working hard, for them that was hard work because nobody ever told them this, so it is obvious that when they are given a job by their parents, for them the job is a very cruel job, there is no place for them in it, now here this is the perspective of the parents, but if we come to that child, that child who has been put into child labour and he also sees that other children are going to school, studying, I am working, then what is the effect of nafs on him and to what extent does it prevail, till he becomes an adult or in his whole life, some such feelings arise in him that we think that this child has not been brought up well, but he learns those things only when he is working in someone’s house or he is working with someone, you must have seen that he does not get so much respect, rather he gets respect. No, they are small, let us make them small, the one who is small, actually he becomes much older than his age, long back when he learns things very quickly and learns in a negative way, then when he converts into youth, now after 10, 15, 20 years when the same children will become youth, then how will our youth be, our youth will not have those qualities which we want to see, we cannot expect those productive things from our youth because we have not given them such a childhood, their parents and the whole crowd have failed in this thing that they should have been given a good childhood so that their youth would be good and they care for the good generation, that is, he has not been taught the difference between good and bad from childhood, so now he can do any evil for his benefit, that is, often the possibility is that the child who does not study goes into labour in childhood and goes into labour in such an environment where he is harassed, there is a feeling of deficiency in him and there is a high possibility that these children become criminals later, of course because You must have seen that this thing is prevalent in them, they beat their children for every small thing, they get beaten for every small thing, they think that work will be done only when they are beaten because they are getting beaten and they are working, they think that work will be done only if they raise their hands, so this thing of theirs goes ahead, so they say that work will not be done until they raise their hands, then the same things come towards theft, after theft, robbery, after that murder and all the things, then the crime starts like this, then their conscience is lost somewhere in childhood itself, that element of conscience is not there in them, that means if I say a statement here in simple words, we install CCTV cameras in our houses and install barbed wires, post security guards to save ourselves from criminals, in reality we ourselves are creating these criminals in our country, we are responsible for this, we see these things in front of our eyes, we also use them, we also take advantage of them and then these people become criminals later on. We try to protect ourselves from them. Here, a child is deeply affected by nafs. It is almost impossible that a complex problem does not arise in him. So, what laws are available? What kind of laws do we have to control this? For example, you can see that there are food authorities, they raid restaurants. There are hospital authorities, health councils, they raid hospitals to check whether they are of good quality or not. What are they doing? Are there no such raid laws that can be checked where children are doing minor jobs and those people who employ them should be penalized? A lot of work has been done on this. Child protection bureaus have been formed earlier also, in which those children are taken in, adopted, and then they are educated and trained. But in Pakistan, the ratio has become so high that they also have to sustain themselves. So, we do not have financial stability in Pakistan and our economic status is low. They are very poor and there is political instability. So when their dues are not being met, they have so much over capacity for the children that they are not able to do all these things because the conditions of our country are not such that they can adopt everything, that is, this is a serious issue. Alhamdulillah, you have also taken a step on this by bringing these children to schools. As you said earlier, there is resistance too. So to what extent, for example, often people on days of 20, 50, 80 resist that no, our children have to work only and not come here to teach them. Or there is resistance from the parents. There are two types of resistance. One is the resistance of the parents and the other is the resistance of the other, for whom they are working. When we started working and started teaching them, the first resistance came to us from both sides. The parents wanted that their children should go to work. Their children. We should bring them money but our counselling is not such that I explained it to them once and they understood, I told them once, twice, once a week, while coming and going again and again, I told them to send him to study, then they see that the child from the Jugi next to them is going to study and he is learning, he is staying clean, he is speaking well, they saw him and then sent their child, the second resistance came from the Mahashe, the people of the nearby kothis even threw garbage on us just because we were teaching them and when those children did not go to work in their houses, their household chores were not getting completed, they were harassing us, criticising us, even such things, but till a point of time, selfishness is of such an extent in our minds that if for our own small gains, someone's life or someone's future gets ruined, so be it, we do not care about it and I think this selfishness is often in our minds because we do not have values ​​here, we only look at our caste, our self-respect, our interests. We do n't see that because of my own interest, how much loss is being caused to someone else, we ignore it. You have given a great example, that is, a live example, that those people who are making just one child work at home are showing resistance, whereas millions of children are involved in such work. Now, we move towards one last question here, which will be a little more detailed, that what should be the practical steps at the public level to stop or reduce this, first of all, the awareness of the parents, counseling them, you will see that we cannot remove that child from that tandoor, from that house, but what we can do is that the child who is coming to work in our house, you should teach him for an hour, you should spend one or half an hour of your time with him, train him so that what you can do is if everyone starts doing this that the children who are coming to work in their houses or the child who is coming to the tandoor to work there for half an hour daily, he should be given some work. Teach him and tell him at least he should be able to read so much that he can write his name, he can differentiate between right and wrong, good and bad, he should be able to see in the senses of good and bad. It is not necessary that any degree be given. What you are talking about is about those children who are above minor age, i.e., under minor, for example, from Islamic point of view, a girl who is 9-10 years old is a minor, after that she becomes an adult, so should a girl under 10 or a child under 13 be employed, is this ethically correct? No, it is not right at all, he should not be employed at all. So, in principle, we should register that brother, we will not employ this child, we will not keep him on employment, that means we should not encourage these things, I think we should encourage them, for example, if I go to a puncture shop, if a small child comes to fill air in my tyre, I think I should register him there and should not get air filled from that child, I think I am not right, if you want to sympathize here then the sympathy is to make arrangements for his education or why is he doing this, then we should not entertain such children who do prostitution, if we don't do it then only it will come under control, when they will not get anything, they will see that nobody gives our children a job or money, then they will naturally come to the right path, we will never make our child work, if our small child picks up something then we quickly catch him so that it does not hurt him and if you give a knife in the hand of the same child then how does our conscience not blame ourselves for giving that knife in his hand, so first of all we should create an awareness in our society that our conscience should wake up that what things we have to see and what things we have to avoid, no our conscience is dead right now, we talk about those children who are doing labour, right now we should stay away from them There is neither sympathy nor any concern about their future. Today in a world where 200 Haj children have been murdered within three months, does our conscience awaken? It is like this there, no conscience awakens. Neither the system that you have started here, to what extent have you spread it to these children or is it limited to your own locality only? We started with 30 children in a slum, in which we taught 30 children who used to go begging or who worked in other people's houses. From that one slum, we created a bamboo structure in which the number of children increased to 40-45, but that place was becoming too small for us. Now, Mashallah, in 2021, after Covid, we have built a container- based school, that is, a portable structure by joining three containers, in which there are 90 such slum students who properly do their education, their training, do they do it full time or part time. timing means the children who probably work during the day and come to you to study or not, they only study, their school timing is proper, they only study, they do not do labour work, they do not do any labour work because how did we solve the issue of their parents' income, first of all we give food to the children, we give them daily meals in school, because if they are not able to study then they cannot study to their maximum capacity, so not only we are educating them, we also feed them properly, then the child who performs well is given Rs 1000, shouldn't this awareness campaign be run in the system that we should not make the children work, it should definitely be run, social media is very important nowadays social media is the power, social media is the voice, you all should do it together, now you yourself said that many NGOs do this work, I think NGOs do a reactive work, for example, one thing has happened, now apply balm on that If we do not invest our capital to find the root cause of the problem, then is it not necessary that someone takes an initiative, whether it is NGOs or media, and run a public service campaign, a public awareness campaign that we do not entertain ourselves about child labour. I think the most effective thing is that when the receiver is not ready to receive, the giver will be compelled to give, then it is exactly like this, it should be exactly like this, we people, this is the world of ours, that when that thing happens, we start working, we show our reaction, just like here, right now there is a lot of movement on driving license, why should everyone have a driving license, because the six criminals were murdered, after that this started, so why do we want to reach something after which there is a crackdown on it, why do n't we sense it beforehand and work on it, have you heard anywhere, religious personalities, Ulema do this work? Do you ask, is there any Khudbuda on Jumma? I did not see it anywhere, that is why I am asking you. No, he is not doing any work on it, nor does anybody speak on it, because there are no listeners. We people only want to say what people want to hear and people want entertainment. We are self-centered, we only think about ourselves, we do not think about others, and this is a very big thing. Here I have a narration, that I because time is also running out, but it is important, so I will narrate it, it is from Rasulullah Salam that his companions used to come and sit everyday, so once there was a companion who used to come everyday, but suddenly he was not seen for a few days, he asked his others that where is he, he was very poor too, he was not very good, he was not a great scholar either, he was a very simple person, so Rasulallah used to remember him everyday that why has he not come for a few days, so another companion went and met him and asked what is the matter, what do you do, that you are a great devotee, you are a great Zahid, you are a scholar, I say so I am nothing, I don't even read the maaz tahajjud, I offer the waz baat, I just avoid the haraam, I do basic work, you must be doing something like this, there is just one thing inside me which I understand that when I see someone in trouble, even if I don't have anything, I still sit with him with sympathy, so here it is a big problem that we don't feel pain, only the pained people of the mass can do something, Alhamdulillah, it was this pain that made you do this small work, on an individual level, when pained people start increasing in the mass, only then there is a relief inside the mass, there is reform, reform does not happen by seeing, reform happens by pain, this pain is what we lack here, as you said, the pain is less because the place of pain has been taken by the fun, entertainment, mashq lahab laha, that's why we don't feel anyone's pain, even those parents who make their children do child labour, they do n't feel the pain of their children What will happen to these children, we are the candidates of the audience, Insha Allah, we cannot solve all these issues in every way, we also have our own capacity to work on it, but at least we try to do an ice-breaking session on the subject of these issues, where there can be a start and all the media channels, which do so much for commercialization, should give some time to these things as well and make such programs on it, make short films or make public service awareness messages, so that we can get ourselves out of these mass evils and especially the evils that are with children, no matter whose child it is, he belongs to all of us, that child is a child, that is the future of a community, that is what we see in the future, to protect them, to set them right, to educate and train them, this is one of our important duties, which we should also carry out and where it is not happening, we should warn them and those who are not warned, You are a man of profit, try not to become a part of it by your actions, do not encourage it, do not entertain it, do not get small children to do your work for your own benefit, only then this issue can be solved, Insha Allah. We will keep discussing with you on similar topics, till the next episode, Allah Hafiz, please take good care of me, with the support of my childhood, I am dust, you [Music] Aasma Mamta Hai Mera Baghwa, it is necessary, it is necessary, Baba Ba, it is necessary, Ba Ba