This was contained in the report released by the platform for labour in Kampala which showed that scrap dealers use children and these children break into houses and kiosks to steal any metallic due to the pressure they get from the people buying scrap.

Uganda children working at a stone quarry

The report placed scrap collection among children on the platform for labour list which carried out the investigations and baby sitting came second and others include stone quarrying, selling eggs and charcoal stoves and roasting meat and doing domestic work.

The  Program me officer of the platform for labour Helen Grace Namulwana said that in most times children who are sent to collect scrap are arrested and those sending them are left free.

She reported that children used as labourers are forced to carry heavy loads beyond their capacity, children are working in unhealthy environment.

She said that in Makindye 12,000 children were exposed to child labour by their parents and are working under strenuous conditions.

She warned parents to stop engaging children in labour work that stop them from going to school.

Reports indicate that 1.7 million children in Uganda are involved in child laour.

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International Labour Organisation

In a press statement seen by Ultimate Media, ILO says all stakeholders involved must focus on raising awareness on the dangers of child labour to ensure attitude change against child labour in favour of education and skills.

This comes as Uganda joins the rest of the world to commemorate the World Day Against Child Labour on Saturday 12 June, 2010 with the theme: ‘Go for the goal: End child labour.’ The day aims at promoting awareness and action to tackle child labour.

According to ILO, millions of child labourer’s have benefited from the ILO child conventions drive against practices such as the use of children in slavery, forced labour, trafficking, debt bondage, serfdom, prostitution, pornography, forced or compulsory recruitment for armed conflict and all kinds of work that are likely to harm the safety, health and morals of children.

The International labour body also appealed for renewed urgency to tackle the worst forms of child labour, integration of child labour in poverty reduction, social protection and education programs and building political support in tackling the problem.

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