Description
Many children in Africa have to work or their families will starve. Often they work long hours alongside their parents.
In Child Labour we follow the story of Etienne Babila. Etienne survived two years of working in the cocoa plantations of Cameroon, but he is one of the lucky few.
He and his family received help from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to help get Etienne out of work and back to school.
There are estimates of up to a quarter of a million children being used in dangerous exploitative labour across West Africa. This removes a child’s right to an education and an adult’s right to work.
Child Labour meets Etienne as he tells NGO worker, Julius Fonboh about the ordeals he went through and what life holds for him and his family now he is away from the fields and his parents have been helped to start their own business.
Part of a 28 x 25-minute documentary series produced for the BBC.