COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
Community Empowerment

To enhance awareness about child labour, its reasons and consequences we need to promote and foster community participation. Our past experience shows that the community level Comities are instrumental to further awareness on child labour, women development etc. All members will be residents of the respective urban slums and are socially committed. They will be highly instrumental in mobilizing community action to fight against child labour. They are also helpful in making the parents to send their children for schooling. The follow-up of dropout children can also be done with their help. One of the purposes of this will be women’s group formation, organize children/working children for collective action and develop self-help systems. Therefore, monthly meeting with the community at each other will be held.

A key component of community mobilization involves identifying and developing leaders from the community by strengthening and building their capacities in various issues. Community mobilization is neither a campaign that is undertaken once, nor is it a series of campaigns carried out over a period of time. It is a continual and cumulative communication through educational and organizational processes that produces a growing autonomy and consciousness in the community about taking development into their hands.