More than a million children throughout the world are trafficked for the commercial sex industry and other forms of bonded labor. To combat the worst forms of child labor, we work to provide children and youth who are at risk of or caught in exploitative conditions with skills from vocational and practical training to basic literacy classes, and opportunities to enter or reenter the formal school system and improve their work and life prospects.
In collaboration with local, national, and international partners, we design and implement capacity building initiatives to strengthen organizations working to prevent child labor, trafficking, and commercial sexual exploitation in Africa and Asia.Â
We have experience in a wide range of interventions proven to reduce child labor, including improving access to basic skills training, such as basic or functional literacy and lifeskills; providing family income-generation support; establishing or revitalizing local systems to monitor for child labor; providing psychosocial, health, and/or social welfare services; and strengthening national policies for the elimination of child labor. Â