Child
labor worries residents of Catandica Township
Community Radio Catandica was informed several times by members of the communities, that the number of children in the commercial sector is increasing day and night in the Báruè district especially in Catandic Township.
With
this information our team visited and saw more than 10 children of about 7-15 years of age working in the Shop of a local businessman by the name Tohid Islam and
Retail Trading Company. This shop is located
on the National Highway, Road number 7, in
Báruè district of Manica Province. These children confirmed that they work and do many activities on daily basis at that
place, packing boxes of
products without any labour contract. These children also presented that they receive
nuts which does not correspond to these activities.
"In most cases we do a lot of work the whole day and receive a value of fifteen meticais (15.00 Mtn) sometimes twenty metical ( 20.00Mtn) to each one of us," said one of the minors to the local Community Radio Catandica.
The unemployed youth groups said that they have no access to employment to these Shops because the Local Businessmen want to use these children as cheap labour.
Other children interviewed by Catandica Community Radio argued that the local shops are very helpful for their survival because they give them money and biscuits. The businessman Tohib Islam said that these children are not invited but they just come alone to his shop.
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