Promoting the abandonment of child labor in the cotton sector in Burkina Faso III

Financial partners :

Direction du développement et de la Coopération Suisse

Liechtensteinois de développement (LED)

Implementing partners :

OCADES Banfora

OCADES Dédougou

Themes : Combating child labor

Help combat hazardous child labor in Burkina Faso’s cotton fields

Direct beneficiaries : Cotton growers (647) and their family members (3320), school children (850).
Indirect beneficiaries: awareness-raising by radio stations (18,500 people)

Encourage cotton-producing parents to adopt behaviors that reduce children’s exposure to hazardous work in the cotton fields, and encourage them to attend school more regularly.
Facilitating producers’ access to organic compost and biological pesticides
Improve cotton growers’ incomes by facilitating income-generating activities

Project news

World Day Against Child Labor: In Dédougou, children march to denounce child labor in the cotton fields

12.06.22

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According to data from the National Survey on Child Labor (ENTB), more than one million children aged 05 to 17 (41.1%) are economically active in Burkina Faso. In addition, there are around 250,000 child workers...

Fighting against dangerous child labor in the cotton fields: the children of Dédougou plead for respect for the right to education for ALL children

12.06.23

On the occasion of World Day Against Child Labor, celebrated every June 12, Ocades Caritas Burkina / Dédougou (local partner), organized a commemorative ceremony on May 27, 2023. During the ceremony, pupils from the BOUCLE...

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