Tdh at Paleo Festival!
10 Jul 2012 Trafficking, abuse and exploitation, VariousSwitzerland, Burkina Faso
For the third consecutive year, Terre des hommes will be at the Paléo. What’s the issue this year? To make the general public aware of the exploited child workers in the granite quarries in Pissy, a suburb of Ouagadougou.
With a photo exhibition, various activities and a competition with prizes to be won, visitors to the Paléo are invited to find out about the scourge of many Burkina Faso youngsters, and Terre des hommes’ fight to put an end to it.
Help them children from Burkina Faso by meeting us at Paleo Festival!
You can find us at the Paleo during the whole week of 17th to 22nd July, 2012, behind the Forum tent! In our photo exhibition you can see the intolerable conditions under which the Burkina Faso youngsters work, and Tdh’s fight to put an end to it.
You can also be photographed and get your snapshot right there, personalized by Tdh.
Finally, you can take part in our competition and, with a bit of luck, win a Nikon camera, a Hotelplan travel voucher for CHF 500.- or tickets for the Terre des hommes Festival in Massongex!
1.5 million children forced to work
In Burkina Faso, poverty forces more than 1.5 million children to work in intolerable conditions. In the quarry at Pissy, there are nearly a thousand Burkina Faso youngsters who are totally illiterate, exposed on a daily basis to violence and serious physical and health risks.
Despite current legislation, the government has not managed to propose viable alternatives, and the simple ban of the authorities is no longer sufficient to check the phenomenon.
Active there for the past 25 years, Terre des hommes collaborates closely with local social, educational and health services, as well as with local communities, to abolish once and for all the exploitation of these children.
By offering the young victims of exploitation literacy courses, schooling or job training, or by looking after the youngest children in day-nurseries, Terre des hommes actively participates in setting up practical educational measures and is fully involved in offering a better future to these youngsters.
