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Speaking about Child Labour.
This is such an issue, that everybody wants this practice not to exist.
People who have formed the big societies against child labour,
I can garantee that there are child labours in their house also.
So instead of giving hard hitting speaches against child labour,
or making laws against it or going to places to collect information against it,
we must first see that these laws are implemented properly.
The practice of child labour cannot be
stopped by any particular politician or person.
We have to work against it together.
He has to work day in and day out, he has to get up at 6 am maybe
and he is not even built
for that kind of powerful work that he is doing
, the kind of weight that he lifts or anything else.
he should have a chance to enjoy life like we do
and you cannot stop poverty by not letting a child...
The biggest reason behind these children coming to work,
is their economic back ground. They come against their will.
We can make small centers for these children where
they can be given training to improve their skills to make some product,
and promote these products with the help of
some NGOs so that they could earn for their food, shelter and education...
His feet are bare walking among the rays of the torment sun,
let the heavens pour and the thunder blaze his hands always run.
His vest and pants are always dirty and torn,
he runs his run without anyone to scorn.
Through his puddled up eyes the world he see,
with nobody by his side he smiles in glee.
The bonds he had have long withered,
he works and he works for a piece of rice shard.
He sees the first sun everyday with abuse in his ears,
and stares at the moonlight with the loneliness he bears.
He lives his life with the dreams he dream,
and has a name even though hanging from the brim.
Stop child labour [ World Day Aginst Child Labour], 12th June 2013.
Issued in public interest by: Global Youth Foundation Kolkata.
Poem Translated by- Subhankar Mondal.
Subtitles by- Debattam Chatterjee