Save the Children's project with child domestic workers in Calcutta

Children in domestic work typically lose out on several basic rights – including the rights to adequate food and education. Employers do not allow them free time to play, and a shockingly large percentage are abused, either verbally, physically or sexually. Living in a situation of daily insults, little food, beatings, and no education, such children lose their childhood.

For the past three years, Save the Children have been:
encouraging parents to fetch back children from domestic work and put them into schools, informing communities on the need to stop sending children to cities for work
motivating employers with child employees to treat them humanely and to send them to school
encouraging potential employers to stop employing children as domestic help.
informing the public and raising awareness to the issue of child domestic work.

Since Save the Children began this programme, they have succeeded in sending 1700 children back to their villages. In turn, these children have become change agents, working in their communities to stop the scourge of children in domestic work.

I'm sure that you'll agree this is a very worthwhile cause and as the funds are raised they are going directly to Save the Children to continue with this project.