At present UCEP is addressing about 0.47 percent (37,000) of the total working children. Most of these unfortunate children are employed in the sectors earmarked as hazardous for children by the International Labor Organization. According to the last
Mission
At present UCEP is addressing about 0.50 percent (40,000) of the total working children. UCEP will expand its program coverage to more urban areas especially metropolitan cities and towns and continue to focus on the same target group. As per prevailing socio-economic structure, poor people have been forced to migrate to the city for want of existence due to lack of economic activity in the rural areas. As such, the children of the migrated families have to accept physical labor for their survival instead of schooling. They are engaged in more hazardous work and living in a more unhygienic condition compared with rural children. Company Overview
The Underprivileged Children's Educational Programs (UCEP) is a leading national non-government organization of Bangladesh . It strives to inculcate marketable skills among the hardcore poor urban working children and adolescents through Integrated General and Vocational education followed by Technical Education and on the job apprenticeship in close collaboration with potential entrepreneurs and ...See More
Description
Child Labour in recent years specially after the CRC of 1990 has become a sensitive issue both in the developed countries where it is nearly non- existent and the least developed countries where it is abundant. The former equipped with CRC is exerting immense pressure on the later to eliminate child labour in their midst. The fact, however, remains the least developed countries are not in a positi...See More
General Information
The government and the donor agencies are seriously concerned about the CRC issues and the problem of child labour. A prominent feature of UCEP is that it implemented a project on advocacy of child rights named ‘Let Children Speak’ through 16 partner NGOs in eight districts (Dhaka, Narayangonj, Jessore, Khulna, Rajshahi, Bogra, Noakhali, Chittagong) throughout Bangladesh from March 2004 to May 2007 with the financial assistance of Manusher Jonno Foundation. The main objective of that project was to raise the voice of the children against all sorts of abuse, exploitation and discrimination affecting their lives. With the tremendous success of the project, the demand to expand the program to other districts of the country came to the limelight. UCEP started to believe that expansion of this advocacy program to other areas of the country will create an outstanding impact. With this in mind, the program has been mainstreamed and a new section "Child Rights & Advocacy" came into being from project Phase-VI. This section is now implementing the Advocacy of Child Rights Program as "Let Children Speak Phase-II" in 10 districts (Gazipur, Sherpur, Sirajgonj, Kurigram, Sylhet, Barisal, Satkhira, Bagerhat, Cox's Bazar and Rangamati) through 24 partner NGO's.
