The Department of Labor and Employment in Central Visayas has intensified efforts against child labor in parts of the region in a bid to end the exploitation of minors in the country by 2028. /PDI
DOLE-7 also offers a program called Kabuhayan Para sa Magulang ng Batang Manggagawa which provides employment opportunities for the parents, guardians, or working-age siblings of child laborers.“In the end, it is our hope to remove children from child labor, particularly from its worst forms,that deprive them of their childhood,” she said.
From 2018 to 2022, DOLE-7 has profiled 25,659 child laborers in the region who were given direct interventions by the department or referred to other agencies and organizations. A report from the Philippine Statistics Authority on Working Children Situation from 2019 to 2021 showed there were 1.37 million working children in the country. Of the number, 935,000 were engaged in child labor.
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