Being a girl and being able to finish your studies is not an easy task if you are born in Mali. Many girls have to go to work at a very young age to help support the family economy, and most of them are dedicated. To domestic work, one of the most invisible realities of labor exploitation and, specifically, child labor exploitation. According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), there are more girls under the age of working in domestic service than in any other type of child labor. Despite the Government’s efforts to eliminate child labor, many of them are girls. And young people between nine and years old who work in slave conditions every day of the week for a miserable salary, between and euros per month. . In addition to labor exploitation, they suffer serious abuses such as physical abuse, rape, forced confinement, and denial of food and health care, among others. In Bamako, specifically, nine out of ten households have one or two domestic workers who come from rural areas. This is the case of Hawa Diarra, a -year-old girl who, when her mother died.
We found Hawa and learn about our project
When she arrived in the city, her aunt placed her with a neighboring family to work as a maid in an area where we work. That’s why we found her, and encouraged her to participate in our project. Which consists of working together with government Netherlands Telegram Number Data institutions to identify and care for girls who are in danger. Thus, we act as mediators with the families to try to reestablish the relationship and get them to return home, we facilitate their return to their communities. The school system and we train the girls about their rights and how to protect themselves from abuse. In addition, we offer them literacy and vocational training classes, as well as savings practices and microcredit, among other activities, so that they can access better employment in the near future.
Hawa has participated in awareness days
On the dangers of early migration, voluntary return, how to prevent COVID- and how to take care of herself. During these days we informed her that we could support her so that she could return. To her community of origin or resume Arabia Email List her studies, and she accepted. Today the young woman attends our night classes , which we carry out with the support. Of local authorities, to prepare for her future reintegration into school next year. We also support her with the delivery of school kits. So that she does not have to pay for school supplies. “Thanks to the recovery classes organized by the project, I can now read and write in French. I often also receive clothing and health care as well as mosquito nets or hygiene kits to prevent coronavirus. I have also learned a lot about my rights and protection of children thanks to. My participation in the educational talks organized in my neighborhood by Educo,” says Hawa. Since we have been working in Bamako to fight against the exploitation. Girl domestic workers by promoting safe and protective environments.