There are more than one million child labors in Nepal and they are engaged into all kinds of places- 'agricultural farms, tea gardens, fruit fields, brick kilns, carpet and garment factories, hotels and private households' and so on. According to National Living Standard Survey (NLSS) carried out by Nepalese government, 127,000 children are doing worst form of works. These children are deprived of any kind of education. If this is not enough to make you sad then you will surely become sad to know that these child labors receive very poor or even no wage- many of them just get 3 meals a day for their day long work.
What is even more depressing is that they have no hope for the future and no shelter. Western NGOs and rights groups often voice their concern about the plight of these miserable children but their activity stops there.
The new found peace and stability in Nepal has created sense optimism in many observers and I hope that Nepalese government takes this matter very seriously without any delay. If the government is determined that solving this problem will not be difficult.
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