Child Labour Seminar in partnership with the ILO
The World Seminar on Scouting and Child Labour was held in Cairo International Scout center – Cairo, Egypt from 4-10 February 2005.
The aim of this seminar was to:
- promote Scouting's role in improving the standard of living for working children and their families to:
- know how to protect and help those children who work in workshops and small industries and their families
- know how to provide children at work, aged 7 to 18 years old, with appropriate health care and different educational services responding to their needs through the Scout programme
- know how to involve Scouts from older sections in projects aimed at supporting children at work and eliminating child labour
- know how to adapt to Scouting and use the "Scream programme" (Supporting Children's Rights through Education, the Arts and the Media) developed by the ILO, to exchange and share experience among participants in the field of intervention programmes to protect the working children, and
- identify the potential roles of National Scout Organizations and Regional Scout Offices in contributing to eliminate child labour, to develop partnerships with the UN agencies working on child labour and their regional offices (UNESCO, ILO, UNICEF, ACDD, etc.)
Participants: leaders in charge of "Child Labour" projects in Scout Organizations at provincial or national levels, members of Regional/National Youth Programme Committees or teams willing to develop or support projects concerning Scouting and child labour, partners of National Scout Organizations active in the field of child labour and members of provincial or regional teams in charge of projects of co-operation and fundraising. (May 2005)
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