Child Labour: latest Mindset production

Mindset has just completed a video on Child Labour; it was requested by International Child Labour via an organisation called, Towards the Eradication of Child Labour (TECL). The video and interactive multi-media module is aligned to the school subject: Life Orientation.

In 1989, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) within which Article 32 asserts the right that children should not be engaged in work deemed to be "hazardous or to interfere with the child's education, or to be harmful to the child's health". This video has been made to be shown in schools and to create awareness around what is child labour and to strengthen dialogue in handling child labour related issues.

Colleen Smith, Production Executive at Mindset explains the content; "We follow the story of a young boy who has problems at home and runs away, he get's involved in a gang who sells drugs, he is then forced to work for the gang - he finds it difficult to get out of the gang as he has nowhere else to go.until he meets a young girl who have been forced intp a brothel".

According to Ms Smith, the video engages its audience through questions and discussion topics at the end of the video; the video also explains the diffence between child labour and chores that children should do in order to help the household.
The video is also supported by an engaging, interactive module that is available on CD for computers. Both video and interactive module can be accessed on the Mindset Learn datacast system; it is also available on DVDs CD's and can be viewed on our broadcast channel on DStv 319.

Copies of the video (on DVD) and the interactive lesson (on CD) may be obtained from the Library of the ILO (International Labour Organization) in South Africa on

Tel: South Africa 012 431 8805

Email: tecl@tecl.org.za