Coca Cola : Opinion: Social Protection is Essential to Combat Child Labor | 4-Traders

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Simon Steyne is head of Social Dialogue and Partnerships in the International Labor Organization's International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor....

Many children work to earn money to go to school (even though working and going to school affects attendance and achievement). And when poor families, especially with insecure incomes, get hit by sudden shocks to their finances - for example, education costs, any medical costs, or the death or injury of a breadwinner - it can knock them sideways. That's often the first time a child - even a child in school - begins child labor to replace or fill the gap in an adult's income. Social protection ensures basic family incomes so children don't need to work to fill the gap. Social protection changes lives.


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