Developing children’s skills does not constitute child labour – MNCRD

Media Network on Child Rights and Development (MNCRD) says developing children’s skills does not constitute child labour and has urged parents and guardians to avoid mixing up the two concepts.

Executive Director Henry Kabwe says that there is need for this misconception to be clarified because the future of children will be compromised if they are not involved in chores that will help them in future.

Mr Kabwe points to a number of family businesses in Zambia that have closed down after the demise of parents who ran them, due to lack of strategy by such parents to impact their children with business skills to run businesses or family income generating activities.

Mr Kabwe has classified child labour as acts that jeopardize children’s physical, moral and spiritual development and their opportunity to get educated.