THEY CALL IT CHILD LABOUR BUT THIS IS HOW WE SURVIVE
Child Labour refers to the exploitation of children through any form of work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and is mentally, physically, socially or morally harmful. Such exploitation is prohibited by legislation worldwide although these laws do not consider all work by children as child labour; exceptions include work by child artists, family duties, supervised training. Child labour has existed to an extent through out the history of mankind. In the world's poorest countries, around one in four children are engaged in child labour, the highest number of whom (29 percent) live in sub-saharan Africa . In 2017, four African nations (Mali, Benin, Chad and Guinea-Bissau) witnessed over 50 percent of children aged 5–14 working. Worldwide agriculture is the largest employer of child labour. The vast majority of child labour is found in rural settings and informal urban economies. With child Labour be a major co