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                Not all of them are as lucky as Rudy’s younger brother and sister. Today, Rudy is no longer afraid that his two siblings may quit school to work in the sugarcane fields.

 

                “I am happy that I can give money to my parents to send my younger brother and sister to school,” he says. For the ILO, agriculture remains a priority sector for the elimination of child labor.

 

                 “For agricultural and rural development to be sustainable, it cannot continue to be based on the exploitation of children in child labor. Unless a concerted effort is put in place to reducing agricultural child labor, it will be impossible to achieve the ILO goal of elimination of all worst forms of child labour by 2016”, concludes Jankanish.