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Support the Warren Proclamation on Child Labor and help provide education opportunities for child labourers in India!

The students and teachers of Warren Middle and Central schools in New Jersey, USA have drawn up a Proclamation on Child Labor which puts forth their view of the effects and causes of child labor around the world. As part of their activities in the I*EARN Fight Against Child Labour Project, they have devised the Proclamation and have had it adopted by their local authority, the Township of Warren.

The Proclamation has enabled Warren Township to state its concern about child labour and to pledge its support for the Warren schools' initiatives. These initiatives, building on their collaborative discussions on child labour with young people across the globe, now focus on the raising of funds to establish and support schools for child labourers in India through the Free the Children organization. See:
www.freethechildren.com
www.ftcindia.org
www.pueblito.org

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The Warren students and teachers and the participants in the Fight against Child Labour Project urge you to:

1. Read and consider the Proclamation on Child Labor

2. Discuss the adoption of the Proclamation in your school and community

3. Have your school, local authority, province or government adopt the Proclamation

4. Use the adoption of the Proclamation as a basis for raising funds to be sent to suuport the Warren schools' where they will be added to the more than US$4000 already raised through school and community effort

5. Send copies of the Proclamation, as adopted by your school, local authority, province or government by email to Deborah Felton (teacher at Warren Middle School) and to Bob Carter (coordinator of the I*EARN Fight Against Child Labour) so that they can be added to a collection of adopted Proclamations.

6. Urge other schools and organisations to support and spread the Proclamation and the raising of funds.

7. Keep in touch with this initiative through iearn.projects and this web site

Of course, if it is not possible or practical in your school or community to raise funds, adoption of the Proclamation is still something important you can do in this cause. Also, if raising funds is not possible, you could look at other Free the Children projects to support in other ways.

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For your own draft version of the Proclamation:

Funds should be sent to:
Free the Children International
P.O. Box 32099
Hartford, Connecticut
06150-2099
USA
with a printed copy of the Proclamation on Child Labor and a note stating:
"The enclosed funds were raised as part of the I*EARN Fight Against Child Labour Project and are to support the education of child labourers in India".
The preferred form of the funds is United States dollars.
All received funds will acknowledged by Free the Children by mail and on this project web site.

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions about this initiative, please be in touch with Deborah & Bob

Deborah Felton and Bob Carter