童工：困在翁多东部和西部地方政府区的男孩和女孩的困境

翁多东部和西部地方政府的 Bolorunduro、Fagbo、Igushin 和 Bagbe 等沉睡社区拥有翁多州最大的可可生产能力。

The cocoa-producing communities of Bolorunduro, Fagbo, Igushin, and Bagbe in Ondo East and West Local Government Areas are facing a major challenge in accessing education due to the prevalence of child labour in the area.

由于该地区童工现象普遍存在，翁多东部和西部地方政府地区的博洛伦杜罗、法格博、伊古申和巴贝等可可生产社区在接受教育方面面临着重大挑战。

A recent investigation by BusinessDay revealed that children as young as nine years old are engaged in hazardous cocoa farming activities, such as fumigation, cocoa pudding, and packing, often for minimal pay or to assist their parents.

BusinessDay 最近的一项调查显示，年仅 9 岁的儿童从事危险的可可种植活动，例如熏蒸、可可布丁和包装，通常只是为了获得最低工资或帮助父母。

According to National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) data, 52.6 percent of children in Ondo West are engaged in hazardous cocoa farming work, while 57.4 percent of those aged 5-14 in Ondo State skip school for cocoa farms.

根据国家统计局(NBS)的数据，翁多西州52.6%的儿童从事危险的可可种植工作，而翁多州5-14岁儿童中57.4%的人因可可农场而逃学。

The investigation found that while on the cocoa farms, the boys are saddled with the responsibility of fumigation, while the girls pod the cocoa and pack it out of the farms. They also confirmed that they work as labourers to earn additional money.

调查发现，在可可农场里，男孩们负责熏蒸，而女孩们则负责将可可豆荚装运出农场。他们还证实，他们做劳工是为了赚取额外的钱。

“I assist my father on the cocoa farms because if I don’t go with him to the farm, there is no way of feeding the family and paying my school bills,” 13-year-old Elewe Damilola, a student of Igushin Community Grammar School, told BusinessDay.

“我在可可农场帮忙，因为如果我不和他一起去农场，就无法养家糊口，也无法支付我的学费。”13 岁的埃莱韦·达米洛拉 (Elewe Damilola) 是伊古申社区的学生文法学校告诉《商业日报》。

“Anytime I helped them fumigate the cocoa, I had a lot of itches on my body and a kind of peppering feeling in my eye.”

“每当我帮他们熏可可时，我的身体就会很痒，眼睛里有一种刺痛的感觉。”

The Ondo State Child Rights Act, passed into law in 2007, protects the rights and privileges of children aged 0 to 16. The law stipulates that a child has the right to survival and development.

2007年通过的《翁多州儿童权利法》保护0至16岁儿童的权利和特权。该法规定儿童享有生存权和发展权。

However, the investigation found that the law is being flouted by many cocoa farmers in the area, who engage children in hazardous work to maximise profit.

然而，调查发现该地区许多可可种植者藐视法律，他们让儿童从事危险工作以实现利润最大化。

“The roads are bad, the pests are destroying our cocoa, the chemicals we use are expensive, and most of the time after harvest, moving the goods is challenging. That’s why we often engaged children in labour work to maximise profit,” Ariyo Benjamin, a cocoa farmer who rented his farm for a year, told BusinessDay.

“道路状况不佳，害虫正在破坏我们的可可，我们使用的化学品价格昂贵，而且在收获后的大部分时间里，运输货物都是一项挑战。这就是为什么我们经常让孩子们从事劳动工作，以实现利润最大化，”租用农场一年的可可种植者阿里约·本杰明 (Ariyo Benjamin) 告诉《商业日报》。

According to Ariyo, labourers are paid N4,000 per day and N350,000 per year, unlike before when it was cheaper and the climate challenges were not as challenging as they are now.

据 Ariyo 称，工人的工资每天为 4,000 奈拉，每年为 350,000 奈拉，与以前不同，当时的工资更便宜，而且气候挑战也不像现在那么具有挑战性。

The Alara of Igunshin land, Oba Lawrence Adelaisoye, expressed frustration with climate challenges affecting cocoa production and the huge sums of money charged by labourers, which are pushing farmers to engage children in their farms.

伊贡辛土地的阿拉拉人奥巴·劳伦斯·阿德莱索耶 (Oba Lawrence Adelaisoye) 对影响可可生产的气候挑战以及向劳工收取的巨额费用表示失望，这些都迫使农民让儿童参与他们的农场。

“Our farmers are suffering, the road to our farms has been destroyed by flood, and the poor road network has made the charges from labourers very exorbitant,” Oba Adelaisoye said.

奥巴·阿德莱索耶说：“我们的农民正在遭受苦难，通往农场的道路被洪水冲毁，糟糕的路网使得劳工的费用非常高昂。”

“We send our children to school, but we don’t allow them to go to the farm on school days because the ILO Acclawa project and some NGOs were in the community to sensitise the farmers on the danger of child labour, and we have stopped doing that.”

“我们送孩子上学，但我们不允许他们在上学日去农场，因为国际劳工组织 Acclawa 项目和一些非政府组织在社区中向农民宣传童工的危险，我们已经停止这样做。”

In some schools in Ondo West and East, the Scream Club was established with the support of the International Labor Organization (ILO) Aclawa project, which supports children’s education, arts, and the media.

在翁多西部和东部的一些学校，尖叫俱乐部是在国际劳工组织 (ILO) Aclawa 项目的支持下成立的，该项目支持儿童教育、艺术和媒体。

In Bolorunduro, Bagbe, and Igushin communities, the teachers in charge of the scream club stated that the club’s establishment had assisted the students in understanding the dangers of child labour and engaging children in hazardous work.

在Bolorunduro、Bagbe和Igushin社区，尖叫俱乐部的负责老师表示，俱乐部的成立帮助学生了解童工的危险，并让儿童从事危险工作。

“Before the establishment of the streaming club, during the school period, some of them used to be absent following their parents to the farm, but the club had influenced them positively, there are still records of absentees, but it’s reducing day by day,” Adejana Isaac, a teacher at Igushin Community Grammar School, told BusinessDay.

“在直播俱乐部成立之前，在上学期间，他们中的一些人曾经跟随父母去农场缺席，但俱乐部对他们产生了积极的影响，缺勤的记录仍然存在，但正在日益减少，伊古申社区文法学校的老师阿德贾娜·艾萨克 (Adejana Isaac) 告诉《商业日报》。

“We need the attention of the government in the schools. The heavy rainfall has affected most of the school facilities.”

“我们需要政府对学校的关注。强降雨影响了学校的大部分设施。”