Panama Reports About
60,000 Child Labourers
About 60,000 child
labourers are working in
the streets of Panama,
director of the Program
Casa Esperanza (Hope
Home) Rosana Mendez said
on Wednesday.
Half of these children
are in rural areas, she
said a day before the
commemoration of the
International Day for
the Eradication of Child
Labour on June 12.
Mendez said that six out
of every 10 children
quit their studies due
to poverty.
According to Mendez, a
great percentage of the
peasant children living
in rural areas had to
quit school to work in
large agro-industrial
centres.
"We have serious
problems in the
agriculture exporting
areas that emerged in
recent years, where
thousands of children
are involved every day",
Mendez added.
The Casa Esperanza
Program will form a
human chain Thursday
with the participation
of organizations
committed to the
eradication of this
scourge affecting
Panamanians.
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