Child Labour Day is commemorated on 4 April to give a clear distinction between Child Work and Child Labour. Research indicates that of those children found to be working almost 60 percent did so in order to help their parents financially. This clearly constitutes Child Labour and is therefore unacceptable. Child Work is defined as [...]

                    Mita Marobe holds a photo of her 6-month old baby Kgosientsile who was allegedly kidnapped by his nanny in Hestea Park in Pretoria. The six-month-old baby boy kidnapped by his nanny from his Pretoria North home has been found, a report has said. According to Eyewitness News, [...]

Connect4Climate, is a global initiative that is supported by the World Bank. It encourages African youth to raise climate change awareness through an online photo/video competition – the winners of which be on show at the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Durban. The World Bank, in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Environment and [...]

Education beats poverty: one extra year of schooling increases a person’s earnings by up to 10%. 171 million people could be lifted out of poverty if all students in low-income countries left school with basic reading skills. Education promotes gender equality by helping women control how many children they have. In Mali, women with secondary education or [...]

About Hands Up 4 Education “Hands Up 4 Education” is the Department of Basic Education’s campaign that seeks to mobilise and encourage all South Africans to put their hands up in support of education. Education is indeed a societal issue, one that is shared and supported by all South Africans. In raising our hands in [...]

“Let those we honour today inspire us to start our own journey to make the world a better place and bring our human family more closely together.” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon There is never a year without humanitarian crises.  And wherever there are people in need, there are people who help them – men and women [...]

This should never happen! It pains me to see any child suffer. How can we allow babies to die in Africa? Some parents fleeing conflict and famine in Somalia are abandoning their babies after arriving at the vast refugee complex at Dadaab, Kenya One can only imagine the levels of desperation driving parents to abandon tiny babies [...]

Article One Freedom from Discrimination 1. All children have the right to protection and guarantees of all the rights of the Charter and should not be discriminated against because of their parents or families’ colour, race, gender, language, religion, personal or political opinion, nationality, disability or for any other reason. 2. The Government of National [...]