Need your help!!: Survey Child Welfare Cambodia
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i grew up in usa and all the kids loaded hay every summer
sucked bigtime
money was ok
was silver backed then
sucked bigtime
money was ok
was silver backed then
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Thanks for your input!that genius wrote: ↑Thu Mar 08, 2018 9:53 am Yeah, pretty much. Sure we would all like them to go to school, but over 50% of the country still works in agriculture, and if families have to hire adult labour, they will go bankrupt.
In addition, schools few and far between in many areas, travel time etc, unofficial study 'fees', difficult to solve the child labor problem.
This is exactly what I have experienced in Siem Reap and its actually more or less the departure point of my paper. I think in the West often child labour is seen as a problem, whilst in developing countries it is considered a solution to the problem. Simply eliminating child labour without taking for example poverty, eduction and conflict into consideration doesn't seem like responsible policy, as children might be worse off. It is therefore that Im trying to see if projects working with children actually take these things into consideration, or if there might be some room for improvement there.
Thanks again!
Link to survey:
https://www.netigate.se/a/s.aspx?s=5541 ... 0589X49788
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the long school summer holiday in usa derives from the need for ag labor back in the day
unique long holiday for the kids in usa
rewind your perspective -100 Years ago and you will see the same in some regions of usa
unique long holiday for the kids in usa
rewind your perspective -100 Years ago and you will see the same in some regions of usa
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Hey Frank, thanks!frank lee bent wrote: ↑Thu Mar 08, 2018 6:42 pm the long school summer holiday in usa derives from the need for ag labor back in the day
unique long holiday for the kids in usa
rewind your perspective -100 Years ago and you will see the same in some regions of usa
Yeah notions on child labour in most industrialised countries have changed very much! In Europe for example, child labour much needed and common during and after WWI and WWII. Only after child welfare gained more momentum here. Looking at child labour from todays Western perspective would be simplifying it tremendously!
Thanks
Elise
Link to survey:
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Hey Markd!
I like to find out what projects working with children in Cambodia are currently most focused on. Results will be part of a study I am doing about finding more effective, and mostly responsible, ways to combat child labour. There's a link below to a survey but any comments here are also very welcome of course!
Thanks!!
Link to survey:
https://www.netigate.se/a/s.aspx?s=5541 ... 0589X49788
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I think it should also be taken into account that many of these children have uneducated or undereducated parents who simply cannot fathom the value of education beyond its rudimentary roots.. It is a well known fact that to land a good position you must have a connection (called a string(ksai in Khmer) and money to pay him or her. Most poor rural families have neither and truancy laws are never enforced.elisemweerd wrote: ↑Thu Mar 08, 2018 6:39 pmThanks for your input!that genius wrote: ↑Thu Mar 08, 2018 9:53 am Yeah, pretty much. Sure we would all like them to go to school, but over 50% of the country still works in agriculture, and if families have to hire adult labour, they will go bankrupt.
In addition, schools few and far between in many areas, travel time etc, unofficial study 'fees', difficult to solve the child labor problem.
This is exactly what I have experienced in Siem Reap and its actually more or less the departure point of my paper. I think in the West often child labour is seen as a problem, whilst in developing countries it is considered a solution to the problem. Simply eliminating child labour without taking for example poverty, eduction and conflict into consideration doesn't seem like responsible policy, as children might be worse off. It is therefore that Im trying to see if projects working with children actually take these things into consideration, or if there might be some room for improvement there.
Thanks again!
Link to survey:
https://www.netigate.se/a/s.aspx?s=5541 ... 0589X49788
In short you are dealing with a mentality that needs changing at all levels. The realisation that critical thinking will be an asset to solve problems is not currently in vogue. So whether it's the West or China Cambodia will join the world, but on dictated external conditions. And changing the cultural values of the uneducated poor is Herculaneum task.
As my old Cajun bait seller used to say, "I opes you luck.
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taabarang wrote: ↑Thu Mar 08, 2018 7:17 pmI think it should also be taken into account that many of these children have uneducated or undereducated parents who simply cannot fathom the value of education beyond its rudimentary roots.. It is a well known fact that to land a good position you must have a connection (called a string(ksai in Khmer) and money to pay him or her. Most poor rural families have neither and truancy laws are never enforced.elisemweerd wrote: ↑Thu Mar 08, 2018 6:39 pmThanks for your input!that genius wrote: ↑Thu Mar 08, 2018 9:53 am Yeah, pretty much. Sure we would all like them to go to school, but over 50% of the country still works in agriculture, and if families have to hire adult labour, they will go bankrupt.
In addition, schools few and far between in many areas, travel time etc, unofficial study 'fees', difficult to solve the child labor problem.
This is exactly what I have experienced in Siem Reap and its actually more or less the departure point of my paper. I think in the West often child labour is seen as a problem, whilst in developing countries it is considered a solution to the problem. Simply eliminating child labour without taking for example poverty, eduction and conflict into consideration doesn't seem like responsible policy, as children might be worse off. It is therefore that Im trying to see if projects working with children actually take these things into consideration, or if there might be some room for improvement there.
Thanks again!
Link to survey:
https://www.netigate.se/a/s.aspx?s=5541 ... 0589X49788
In short you are dealing with a mentality that needs changing at all levels. The realisation that critical thinking will be an asset to solve problems is not currently in vogue. So whether it's the West or China Cambodia will join the world, but on dictated external conditions. And changing the cultural values of the uneducated poor is Herculaneum task.
Thanks taabarang, your insights are very helpful!
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