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Insan Foundation
Pakistan is a non profit organization formed in 1990 by
a group of university graduates. The fundamentalist motive
behind its formation at that time was to bring about change
in the deteriorating condition of the child rights in factory
area, Ghazi Road, where the organization started working.
At the outset, the main thrust of the organization was to
provide education to the children involved in the workforce.
The organization was partly motivated by the belief that
poverty and poor educational system were the main causes
of child rights violations. Later, however, as the horizon
of the vision expanded realizing that the denial of children's
rights is basically a political issue, the organization
felt that imparting critical consciousness through transformational
education, undertaking advocacy campaigns and training of
human rights activists, teachers and children were the most
crucial areas should the issue be addressed holistically
and effectively. Now with more than ten years down the road,
Insan Foundation is a thriving organization working at the
national level with the programs including education, alternative
curriculum development, training and peace campaign.
Mission:
Elimination of child rights violation and implementation
of child rights convention in the country by bringing the
children in the mainstream and promoting social structures
and support the development of children without any discrimination.
Aim:
Bring this issue of Child Labor and other related issues
to limelight so that public opinion can be mobilized against
the menace and let them address the issue at their level,
establish a social laboratory to assess the actual cause
of this problem, its socio-economic implications on the
society and then generalize the results. Suggest strategies
to reduce ratio of children adding into the child labor.
Objectives:
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