Cahul district considered model for eliminating child labor in agriculture
Cahul district is a model of agribusiness, which combines profit and social responsibility. This is the conclusion reached by the Monitoring Team of the Code of Conduct for Employers on the elimination of the worst forms of child labor in agriculture and food industry, which traveled recently to Cahul to identify cases when the children work in the fields instead of going to school.
During discussions, directors of Cahul education institutions said the Moldovan traditions of educating the children through labor should be transformed into a theoretical model whereby the children could find out how the vegetables grow and cultivate vegetables themselves on a school plot, the Monitoring Team says in a communiqué, quoted by Info-Prim Neo.
The Monitoring Team of the National Federation of Employers in Agriculture and Food Industry has been promoting the Project on Combating Child Labor in Agriculture since 2005, with technical support from the ILO Bureau for Employers Activities (ILO-ACT/EMP) and the Government of Norway.
The project aims to sensitize the communities and employers to the problem of child labor, create an attitude of intolerance to the worst forms of child labor and encourage employers to engage minors only in accordance with the law.