Parha Likha Hunarmand Pakistan

Children are the flowers of heaven. They are the most beautiful and purest creation of God. They are innocent both inwardly and outwardly. No doubt, they are the beauty of this world. Early in the morning when the children put on different kinds of clothes and begin to go to schools for the sake of knowledge, we feel a specific kind of joy through their innocence.
But there are also other children, those who cannot go to schools due to financial problems, they only watch others go to schools and can merely wish to seek knowledge.It is due to many hindrances and difficulties; desperate conditions that they face in life. Having been forced to kill their aspirations, dreams and other wishes, they are pressed to earn a living for themselves and for their families. It is also a fact that there are many children who play a key role in sustaining the economically life of their family without which, their families would not be able to make ends meet.
Education programs coupled with stipends and other such programs is a proposed solution to this problem.
Rizwan Arshad, Lahore

Pakistan is still among the top ten countries with the child labor issues.
Although the country has had Child Protection Departments and Bureaus since 2004, the departments have had little luck in containing the rapid growth of the menace of child labor.
Where poverty and inflation have played a lethal role in the seemingly uncontrollable increase in Child Labor in Pakistan, there have been other factors that have contributed exponentially to this problem.
Education programs coupled with stipends and other such programs have to be employed. If Pakistan is to improve its situation regarding its child labor woes, the departments established to do so need to be allocated sufficient amounts while at the same time running capacity building programs.
The News
June 12, 2013