Get Involved

1. Sign petition to Stop aid cuts
2. Fly a Kite to Stop Child Labour
3. Keep an eye on what you buy-are you child labour-free?
4. Investigate companies like Tiny Pickers International
5. Find out more about Stop Child Labour campaign
6. Organise your own campaign
7. Buy ethical products
8. Play the game & get children into school



Fly a Kite to Stop Child Labour Come join us at the Concern Stop Child Labour KiteFest 12th & 13th of September!

Dublin’s Phoenix Park will host Ireland’s first International KiteFest in conjunction with the 13th SARI Intercultural Soccerfest on the 12th and 13th September at the Garda and Camogie Grounds from 10am till 6pm.

Nestled in the heart of Dublin the festival will be an exciting, fun-filled weekend for all the family with live music, face painters, teddy bear parachuting, soccer skills and children’s workshops combined with lots of football.

Concern’s Stop Child Labour KiteFest will see kite flyers from around the world coming together to display and fly their brilliant kites, free kite workshops and a Global Post Office all to raise awareness of child labour in the developing world.

The Soccerfest led by Brian Kerr, former International Manager is an annual highlight in the SARI’s (Sports Against Racism Ireland) calendar bringing together over 40 men and women’s teams from a wide range of nationalities now living in Ireland in the largest intercultural football tournament in Ireland.

Come join us and bring along your kite and your teddy bear. If you would like to volunteer at the festival please contact lizzy.noone@concern.net

TThere are activities to suit everyone!
The KiteFest has been organised in association with SARI’s Soccerfest. SARI’s (Sports Against Racism Ireland) Soccerfest is in its 13th year of the anti-racism soccer challenge. Young people from over 20 countries will participate in the two-day event. Sari was set up in 1997 in response to the increasing incidence of racist attacks in the country. It uses sports events to integrate people from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

Look out for our kite-making workshops at the Festival of World Cultures in Dun Laoghaire and Electric Picnic in Stradbally!

Keep an eye on what you buy-are you child labour-free?

If you’re not sure where a product comes from or how it was made... ask!

Unfortunately we cannot see just by picking up a product if child labour was involved in producing it. If you have any doubts about the production of something you want to buy, don’t hesitate to ask the shop manager. Ask about the shop’s policy on child labour and ask ‘Was this made by child labour?’

Customers need to check with their retailers about where their products are coming from and who they are made by. This way, customers can make informed choices about what they buy, where they shop and also, make it clear to retailers that they are against all forms of child labour.

Stop Child Labour have an Action Plan for Companies Against Child Labour (1 MB .pdf format)- why not send it to a company you suspect might be using child labour!

Yes it is the recession! But it doesn’t mean that we have to forget our duty to look after the most vulnerable in society in fact now more than ever we need to help children get into school and Stop Child Labour.

The Stop Child Labour Campaign is asking you to buy ethical!

As well as asking questions about where your products come from you can buy ethical products. The Fair Trade quality mark guarantees a better deal for producers. This means that producers don’t have the need to hire children for cheap labour.

The campaign asks that companies;

Ensure that all workers have the right to join a trade union or a representative body of their choosing.

Do not use of child labour.

Make sure that all workers are paid a living wage- not just the legal minimum.

Show proof that they are implementing decent work standards on the ground.

Links to ethical child labour free products:
www.fairtrade.ie
www.fairlytraded.ie
www.belleetik.com
www.adili.com
www.bbc.co.uk/thread/
www.aztecarts.co.uk
www.ecoshop.ie
www.calico-moon.co.uk
www.fairtradedesign.co.uk
www.fairtradestand.net
www.nomadsclothing.com
http://nosweatapparel.com
www.oxfam.ie
www.amnesty.ie
www.ethicalconsumer.org

The Stop Child Labour Campaign is asking you to check your fashion What are leading fashion and sport retail companies doing about the labour conditions in the factories where their products are made? Find out with the Fashion Check!

The main part of the production of clothing is taking place in countries in Asia, Africa and Central-America where in most places labour conditions are bad and wages low, as well as the age of the textile workers. However, when labour conditions are good or improving for parents, the need for children to become child labourers stops and, in the end, will enable them to go to school.

Check whether your runners and t-shirts are produced under decent circumstances at www.fashioncheck.net

The Stop Child Labour Campaign is not calling for boycott…boycotts are a weapon of last resort, that often times end up doing even more damage to the people we are trying to help. What we are calling for is governments to live up to commitments on education and child protection as well as for business to ensure that labour standards are enforced and for consumers to insist that the products they buy are child labour free by asking retailers to publicise their supply chain

The Stop Child Labour Campaign calls on all Industries, business and Multinational corporations to enforce labour standards as laid out by the ILO and International Trade Union bodies.