Tanzania: Using radio instruction to educate child labour
18.09.2006
In low-income countries like Tanzania where half of the population lives in extreme poverty, child labor is considered as a means of survival for many families and not necessarily abuse. Children in Tanzania are compelled by economic needs to trade-off school time to work as rock crushers in local quarries, farm workers, miners, domestic servants, and prostitutes - in most cases under intolerant and exploitive conditions.