Overseas partners
Our overseas partners get involved directly with working children, fighting to help them maintain their rights – to survival, to dignity, to education, to play and to have their voices heard.
Eye to Eye teaching materials could not be produced without these overseas partners making it possible for the children to tell us their stories in words and pictures.
The organisations were committed to working ethically and professionally to make it possible to capture the children’s lives through the lens of a camera. We continue to keep our relations with the organisations, exchanging support and input in awareness-raising and other actions.
Partners in India – Right Track and JPISC
Right Track works in the city of Kolkata helping children involved in domestic work to find a way back to their homes in the rural areas or offering vocational training and improving working conditions. Jay Prakash Institute for Social Change (JPISC) works in rural Midnapore offering alternatives to the dangerous trip to the city to work.
These organisations facilitated the workshops along with photographer-facilitators of the sessions from Drik India, an organization seeking to bring about social change through photography. Right Track and JPISC continue to be our partners in this project, helping to facilitate a video filming for a video to be produced as part of the Eye to Eye materials.
Partners in Bolivia – Child worker movements
All of the Eye to Eye photographers are connected to the Child and Adolescent Workers groups (NATS), which exist in both Santa Cruz and Llallagua, and which facilitated the workshop process for Eye to Eye. Partnership with the NATS is very strong for Save the Children Spain, with much international collaboration, including exhibitions in Spain and recently even a visit from a representative of these groups visiting Eye to Eye schools in Spain to talk to students.
The workshop in Llallagua was conducted by partners Naira Cine, a visual arts organization that previously worked creating a documentary about child labour in Bolivia for Save the Children. The workshop in Santa Cruz was also run with the support of AVE, a visual arts educational organization that works with child worker movements.
A month after the photographic workshop was concluded an exhibition open to the general public took place in Bolivia, raising awareness regarding child workers’ lives and their perspectives on issues that affect society in general. The exhibition included the photographs, drawings and displays created by the children and adolescents during the workshops.
- Read more about NATS
- Read more about SC Spain's work in Bolivia
- Read about the photo workshops in Bolivia
Partners in Pakistan - TRDP
In Pakistan our partner organisation is the Thardeep Rural Development Programme (TRDP), which works in the desert region of Tharparkar in the South of the country to protect the rights of the 4000 or more children working in the carpet weaving industry in the area.
TRDP helps families avoid being forced to put their children to work on carpet looms to pay off family debt by offering families loans on a fair credit system so they can afford their own loom and make weaving a sustainable family business.
Partnership with TRDP was critical in managing to capture the photos in this very unique desert landscape where for some children working on the loom is part of daily life.
This project is funded by the European Union