In order to prevent child labour in north Chennai Karunalaya identified child labour in various areas in north Chennai with the support of Dutch Embassy and rescue them. The rescued child labours are given transit school education and enrolled in formal school through National Child Labour Project. Apart from this Karunalaya cultural team performs awareness programme called cultural yatra for elimination of child labour which is conducted every friday at slums, streets, tenements and industrial areas in North Chennai. We organized cultural yatra awareness programme for child labour prevention and intervention in North Chennai on 08th July 2011 at Muthusami Salai, Ambedkar Nagar (Near Dental College), Chennai at 4.30 pm. Our cultural team performed karagattam, kolattam. Oyilattam, kummiyattam, lesim and awareness songs and skits ensuring the parents to send their children to school. Around 100 community people participated. At the end of the programme the parents promised that they will send their children only to school and not to work.
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