Providing
Education to Honduran Child Laborers and Their Families
Honduras
October 2002 – September 2003
 In
April 2002, the BEPS child labor team conducted a planning
analysis to examine the level and extent of child labor in
Honduras, to determine the factors influencing children’s
participation in education programs, to identify the programs
and activities in place addressing the needs of working children,
and to develop feasible pilot project intervention strategies
to provide educational opportunities to working children
in Honduras, especially those involved in abusive forms of
child labor.
As a subsequent activity, BEPS launched a one-year
pilot program to reach the children of migrant worker populations
through education facilitators who live and travel with the
migrant families and will conduct afternoon interactive distance
education classes using the EDUCATODOS program framework.
A
supplemental work activity booklet will be produced to provide
awareness regarding child labor and occupational
safety and health education for children laboring in fruit
and vegetable production, salt production, and harvesting
of fish and shrimp. The workbook seeks to portray simple
messages to youth susceptible to pesticide exposure, heat
stress, and other work hazards that pose severe long-term
dangers to their health and safety. Job risk analysis of
work activities and pre- and post-testing of the workbook
will be conducted to determine the efficacy of the materials.
At
the project’s close, an evaluation
to glean lessons learned and best practices for children
working in these
occupations will be conducted comparing knowledge increase
and learning gains among targeted children.
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