Ugandan child labours, Child workers in Tea estates



No solution seems to be feasible enough to wipe away the destructive business of child labour. No matter how many child welfare and human rights organizations are being set up to combat with it, all the attempts are going futile.



According to ILO reports, a large number of children under the age group of 10 years are recruited by the tea estates. Alone in the Tooro region, there are more than 40,000 child labour working in the tea plantations, which is one of the largest tea producers in Uganda.



The children in these regions are forced to work in the tea gardens and they receive no school education. The percentage of child workers is more because they do not demand high wages, which reduces the production cost drastically.



ILO is making efforts along with its partners to send as many children back to school and to some extent they have got good results, with a few of them joining back their classes again.