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In the Middle East and North Africa, many children from low-income families suffer from inadequate access to flexible, low-cost and appropriate education, putting them at risk of entering into exploitative or illegal labor practices. CHF worked to counter this through the ACCESS-MENA program from 2004-2008, and is now building on its success by implementing the Alternatives to Combat Child Labor Through Education and Sustainable Services (ACCESS-Plus) program in Yemen.
ACCESS-Plus shares the primary goal of ACCESS-MENA: to continue to reduce the number of children engaged in exploitative child labor. Since its launch in December 2008, ACCESS-Plus has been able to partner with key players in local government to implement awareness raising campaigns and hold workshops for the public on the importance of education, as well as increase child enrollment in educational programs. By partnering with parents, local organizations and municipalities, we will continue addressing both the direct and indirect causes that expose children to exploitative labor.
Read more about the launch of ACCESS-Plus, as well as access local coverage of the event, here.
CHF International is also recently began implementing the Engaging Media and Civil Rights Activists in Rights-based issues in Yemen (EMCAR) program. Funded by the US State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) EMCAR is working to increase the capacity of Yemeni media and civil society organizations (CSOs) to identify, address, and engage the public around social issues related to the rights of women and children. This will ultimately lead to the program's long-term goal of raising public awareness on these issues to empower citizenry to improve the status of women and children throughout the country.
