Project for child workers to be launched in city

CUTS’S CENTRE for Consumer Action, Research and Training (CART), Jaipur in partnership with the Save the Children (UK) has conceptualized a unique project titled ‘Hum Bhi Bachche Hain’ on domestic child workers.

This project is going to be launched formally in Jaipur on Wednesday at a meeting in Patel Bhawan. The participants here would be government officials and teachers and students from selected schools; representatives of donor agencies/CSOs working on child issues, representatives of social organizations, etc.

According to a press release, the project will be implemented through 35 selected schools in Jaipur city in close collaboration with the Departments of Education, Social Welfare, Labour, Women and Child Development, Government of Rajasthan. The first phase of the project is for a year, from July 2005 to June 2006.