Lets prevent child labor
Clean Water Reducing Child Labor
The lack of clean drinking water is a huge problem in Honduras. Children have to walk up mountains just to get to the fresh water spring, which is miles away from their village. The water experts in the Honduras government and Operation Blessing has built a large water tank that connects to the fresh water spring. Pipes then feed off of the water tank and travel back down the mountain and connects to the 24 houses that are in the village. Unfortunately, this water luxury is not common to have in Honduras. If more of these water tanks and pipe lines are connected to villages, children won't have to travel miles up mountains and drop out of school just to provide their family with water. A policy should be put into place where there is at least one water tank that is connect to each village in Honduras.
Watch the video below to learn more about the water pipeline system:
The lack of clean drinking water is a huge problem in Honduras. Children have to walk up mountains just to get to the fresh water spring, which is miles away from their village. The water experts in the Honduras government and Operation Blessing has built a large water tank that connects to the fresh water spring. Pipes then feed off of the water tank and travel back down the mountain and connects to the 24 houses that are in the village. Unfortunately, this water luxury is not common to have in Honduras. If more of these water tanks and pipe lines are connected to villages, children won't have to travel miles up mountains and drop out of school just to provide their family with water. A policy should be put into place where there is at least one water tank that is connect to each village in Honduras.
Watch the video below to learn more about the water pipeline system:
Policies Against Street Wanderers
Honduran girls who hang around the streets are exposed to trafficking and sexual exploitation. These girls are picked up off the streets by men and are used as forced prostitution. To prevent this form of child labor, there should be policies against children wondering the streets by themselves, especially at night. I believe if a group of children are walking together they are less likely going to be approached and brought into the trafficking business. The policy of children walking the streets in groups and not being on the streets at night will prevent trafficking and sexual exploitation and reduce child labor.
Receiving State Allowances
As stated before, more than 50% of Honduran families are single-parent families and don't receive any state allowances. The state allowances would allow poor families to have a little money to put on the table. Instead, children are having to work in order for their family to survive. This opens up the door of child labor and failure in education. If the government gives state allowances to those single-parent families who need it once a month, the percent of children who are affected by child labor will slowly decrease. Children who come from poor families will slowly be taken out of work due to the state allowances that their family will be receiving.