ChildFund International in Sri Lanka
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Since 1985, ChildFund International has been providing child-sponsorship in Sri Lanka. Despite its primary focus which is targeted on children, it has also provided much assistance in many other areas such as providing safe water storage containers for more than 3000 families after the tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka. Child Centered Spaces (CCS) were built and located in tsunami areas and area with much conflicts and instability so as to provide an avenue for children to turn to and to provide them with a formal education system. In addition, they have reached out to more than a thousand children, providing them with many opportunities in areas such as education, sports, health and nutrition.
They also provide trainings to women and teachers so as to give them a proper understanding of the right way to take care and to educate children. This is extremely important because they both play a very crucial role in influencing child’s decision to receive education. There are also child protection policies which helped to prevent children from discrimination, exploitation, prostitution, sex trafficking, abuse and neglect. These factors are highly relevant to child labour as they affect the inducement of children to work at young ages. The most recent campaign brought up by the ChildFund International would be the "Children First" programme which was launched in April 2007 and aimed to further equipped the children in Sri Lanka with better protection and rights. Better protection is one of the effective ways to curb child labour. All these are done to educate the children of other the better alternatives to child labour and how they can protect themselves from further exploitation.
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