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The Concerned for Working Children (CWC),
India
CWC’S
VISION
"A
sustainable and ecologically balanced world where all children are
respected citizens and abled protagonists, who realise, experience and
practise all their rights through their participation in equitable
partnership with adults to establish and maintain together a secular,
equitable, just, non- discriminatory world."
THE
CONCERNED FOR WORKING CHILDREN (CWC) BELIEVES THAT THE PROBLEMS OF
CHILDREN WHO WORK CAN BE SOLVED WITHIN THE PRESENT CONTEXT
THE
OBJECTIVE OF THE FOUNDING MEMBERS OF CWC WAS TO DEVELOP A PROGRAMME
WHICH WOULD HAVE A SUSTAINABLE IMPACT ON THE ISSUE
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In order to achieve
this, CWC works with local governments, community and working children
themselves to implement viable, comprehensive, sustainable and
appropriate solutions in partnership with all the major actors, so
that children do not have to work. It empowers working children so
that they may be their own first line of defence and participate in an
informed manner in all decisions concerning themselves.
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CWC upholds the
following concerns as central to any action aspiring to improve the
quality of life of working children:
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All actions should be
child centered and in the best interest of working children.
Interventions should have a positive short term and long-term
effect, first and foremost on the children themselves.
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All interventions
should improve the quality of life for children, their families and
their communities.
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The immediate and
long-term impact of all actions on 'working children' have to be
monitored and assessed. It should be mandatory that such mechanisms
are set up before any intervention is implemented.
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Organised
representation of working children and their protagonism has to be
recognised and respected. No decisions or actions which have an
impact on working children should be taken without consulting them
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