But increasingly, the work of such human rights activists has inspired other individuals to play their own part in the movement. It takes intensive counselling to help them realize the exploitation they have been subject to.'Many people continue to live the experiences of Wasal Khan, the brick kiln worker whose daughter was rescued from a life of forced prostitution by Kailash Satyarthi and Bachpan Bachao Andolan. As the same female activist put it, 'Many of them view their employer as their guru, their master, and what he says or does is sacrosanct. But the response from these children is often negative. BBA rescues a large number of such children every day and takes some of them to its rehabilitation centres in Delhi and Rajasthan, as well as to rescue homes run by other organizations.
The affected children have been conditioned into believing their work is a perfectly normal obligation to their families and employers. The income earned by child labourers thus represents a huge leakage from the nations economy, also impacting adult employment and income generation.Societal attitudes towards child labour have ensured its perpetuation. A study conducted by Sathyarthi and BBA titled 'Capital Corruption' estimates that the amount of illegal money generated by Indian firms employing child labourers could be as high as $20,000 million every year. Unfortunately, such people fail to recognize that the effects of child labour encompass all sections of society. Even today, the constant refrain heard from a large part of Indias population is that children have no option but to work to financially support their impoverished families.
Even today, India has about 60 million child labourers waiting to be rescued.In India and other nearby developing countries, child labour was not considered a pertinent issue until thirty years ago. The employed children are often unaware that they are victims of physical and mental abuse, denied access to opportunities that other children take for granted.
Since children generally accept lower wages than adult labourers, it is also cost-effective for many firms to employ child laborers. Several industries such as carpet-making, fire-cracker manufacturing, marble inlay work, filigree metal work, and many others are particularly notorious for using child labour as the childrens small thin hands are better suited for the fine motor skills required by these processes. I thought of the number of times I have seen young children working at roadside tea stalls across India, seemingly content and happy with their lives. As I sipped a cup of piping hot masala chai, the characteristic Indian tea, I could see BBA activists busy at work on the lower level of the office. 'While everyone cannot dedicate their lives to ending child labour, at the very least they could boycott those places and goods that employ child labour.'Her statement carries weight. 'It is extremely overwhelming - the BBA receives dozens of calls every day from common people, asking us what they can do about child labour,' a female activist working in victim assistance, who wished to remain anonymous, told me. Child labour activists are hopeful that BBAs Nobel Peace Prize will lead to a renewed discussion and initiative among all sections of Indian society to ultimately end child labour. This episode laid the foundations of the Indias largest grassroots movement against child labour and trafficking.Today, Satyarthi is a world-renowned voice against the exploitation of children, making headlines in 2014 when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai. Soon after, Satyarthi the engineer and his team of like-minded activists rescued 34 brick kiln workers and the Khans 15-year old daughter, Sabo. Exploited by his employer and ignored by the authorities, he chanced across the newsletter of an organization working for the socially marginalized and somehow managed to locate their office.Khan found an unexpected source of help in an electrical engineer-turned journalist and human rights activist, Kailash Satyarthi, and his team of like-minded activists at Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA), or Save the Children Mission.
His family members had been serving as bonded labourers in a brick kiln for 20 years in order to repay a debt owed to the kiln owner, who now threatened to sell Khans adolescent daughter to a brothel. Directions: Read the following passage carefully, and answer the questions that follow.In 1980, Wasal Khan, a brick kiln worker from Sirhind, a city in Indias north-western state of Punjab, came to the capital city of New Delhi, driven by desperation and fear.
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