We are, after all, gregarious beings, with an identity firmly fixed in the context of community…. Please make sure to visit their website and be made aware of the very prevalence of child mental health In reality, children, in one way or another, are always asking for help; the task for us, as carers, is to listen.
Health is one big issue, both mental and physical. Mentally, I cope better in recuperating when I submerge myself in art and stay off social media for a while. I post my work on Instagram but rarely chit-chat. I do the painting, and M does most of the writing. Again, we are sorry to hear of the two dear little souls, Ms. Hallie and Bungee, we lost. Our condolences to Christine and Lana. There is a difference between the definition of child labour in African communities and those in western environments.
When children work in Africa, mostly in family farms, they are doing so as part of training for their future and aiding family income. In the western sense this is viewed as harmful and exploitative but that is not the case because the type of work children do matches their age and their environment.
Cases of exploitative or harmful work are there, but they are also everywhere including the developed world. Child labour in Africa is generally defined based on two factors: type of work and minimum appropriate age of the work.
That is, any work that is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful to children, and interferes with their schooling by depriving them of the opportunity to attend school or requiring them to attempt to combine school attendance with excessively long and heavy work.
