United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)

Education of Street/ Working Children (in collaboration with Bunyad Literacy and Community Council (BLCC), Lahore)

Proposed Duration: 15 October 1999 – 31 August 2001

Objectives:

• To ameliorate the plight of children, especially girls and females, living under difficult circumstances (by creating awareness amongst parents/communities about the grass violation of rights of these children, and by equipping the children as well as their families with income-generating skills);

• To make general and vocational training available and accessible to all such children, with special focus on completion of the primary education cycle (by offering incentives and rewards);

• To protect and prevent street/ working children from all forms of exploitation and ill-treatment (by sensitizing through health awareness programmes);

• Empowering these children, especially females, so that they enjoy basic human rights, including the right to survival, to development and to full participation in social, cultural and educational activities, as well as other activities necessary for their fulfillment and individual welfare (by equipping them with general and vocational education).

Activities:

• Publishing of a book and leaflet on street/working children;

• Creation of 35 centres for street/working children;

• Establishment of non-Formal schools;

• Provision of free textbooks and cash reward to students.