Last Stop for Child Labour: Eskişehir!
The main objectives of the project are to improve the living conditions of workers in Eskişehir, where seasonal mobile agricultural labor is common, and to prevent child labor for agricultural
SUPPORT EDUCATION OF CHILDREN
Education is one of the issues most affected by difficult living conditions!
Thousands of children of migratory agricultural worker families are migrating to various regions of Turkey between April and October for seasonal harvesting of different products. These children are working 12-15 hours a day while deprived of basic needs and can’t continue their education 1/3 of the school year, almost half of them leave school completely. With the pandemic, conditions got more difficult; with lengthening distance education and school closures, the risk of these children separating from education has increased considerably.
42nd ISTANBUL MARATHON VIRTUAL RUN
We have given educational scholarships to hundreds of disadvantaged children; now, in the 42nd Istanbul Marathon Virtual Run, we will come together on different tracks to support children’s access to education. We will take our steps to support the education of 100 children. To support a child’s access to education, a 1-year education grant is 2000 TL.
GENÇ HAYAT FOUNDATION EDUCATIONAL GRANT
Requirements from applicants:
- Age of above 11 and under 19,
- Documentation of studying in primary and secondary education institutions and ,
- They need financial support to meet their educational needs,
- Documentation of student’s school and course attendance.
ABOUT CHILD LABOR IN SEASONAL AGRICULTURE
30,8% of 720.000 CHILD WORKERS IN TURKEY ARE IN AGRICULTURE SECTOR
64,1% OF THE CHILDREN IN 5-14 AGE GROUP ARE IN AGRICULTURE SECTOR
AMOUNT OF CHILDREN DROPPING OUT OF SCHOOL INCREASES WITH AGE
* TÜİK, 2019
WHAT HAVE WE ACHIEVED IN THE PAST 7 YEARS?
Our journey started in Düzce with "In a Nutshell!" project. We said, "The place of children is our summer schools, not crop fields". We knocked on the doors, visited houses, tents and barracks. We introduced ourselves and said "Your children are entrusted to us!"
Families, teachers, gardeners, agricultural business intermediaries, private & public sector... We said "Everyone is part of the solution", and progressed together!
It was a long journey for the children… Leaving their homes and going to crop fields where the harvest started for cotton, onion, apple, hazelnut… This time we were meeting them in more cities; We were in Düzce, Sakarya, Ordu.
We wished the children never came out of the cities they lived in! We went to Şanlıurfa, one of the cities that emigrate the most. We wanted children to learn with fun and support their education. Most of all, we have created solutions for youth employment by preventing children from dropping out of school.
We published awareness films and documents with our field experiences, and made suggestions and contributions to national and international committees.
By including Syrian refugees in seasonal agriculture in our work, we started our work in Eskişehir.
We continue to take project development and resource development steps for more holistic and sustainable studies. We work in the best interest of children to improve conditions that have become more difficult due to the pandemic.
READ MORE ABOUT OUR PROJECTS ON CHILD LABOUR
Education for Children, Employment for Adults!
With this project, it was aimed to find solutions to the problem of child labour in seasonal agriculture, to better the negative life conditions of families on fields who participate
Project for Prevention of Child Labour
The project has been implemented in order to generate solutions to the issue of child labour in seasonal agriculture by developing common working principles with local administrations.
In A Nutshell (2014 – 2020)
In a Nutshell project mainly put children in the center and established summer schools for both the children of seasonal agricultural workers and local children to keep them away from