Child labor in Pakistan

In Pakistan, the total number of child labor is falling in the age groups of 5-14 years old was 40 millions. The majority of child workers 73% were boys, the remaining 27% were girls, and more than half of the child workers 1.4 millions or 58.6% were working in Punjab province.

Children in Pakistan including boys and girls come from poor families; they needed to keep family members to ensure income security and survival. This makes very difficult for these families to invest their children into education, in fact, even the free public "education" is very costly for them, because they were expected to buy textbooks, school supplies, uniforms, and sometimes they even need to pay teacher's wages. Many families would have weighed the cost of sending their children to school and the income of sending their child to work.







PUBLIC SCHOOL in PAKISTAN

Many child labor come from large family, it is very often that the families' only source of income is from the child, they tend to be rely on their children to gain the income for survival, only the lower age about 1-3, but when they are 5 or 6, they will begin to go to work. Many families lived on the street as their home or some of them were being abandoned by their parent, so they needed to gain money for their survival, mostly these children are the one who go for drugs.