Under the “Rainbow Project”, the school has set up 13 dropping centres throughout the city where the deprived children are educated. The children are also provided with residential facility inside the campus of the school.

“Child labour can not be eradicated entirely until and unless we become more responsible. Residents need to realise that they are not doing any social service by offering work to a child. Instead they are destroying the future of the next generation,” said Sister Cyril, chairperson, Rainbow Project. According to Henry V Jardine, general, US Consulate, “Government needs to be at the forefront to tackle the child labour problem by dealing with the increasing poverty and providing more opportunities for employment. Corporate bodies and civil organisations also need to work to fight the menace.”

In the city, approximately 74 per cent of child labours belong to the age group of 12-16 who are being forced to work in factories, brick kilns, garment factories, tanneries, restaurant, beedi-making and fireworks industry under unhealthy conditions. Most of the time they are not fed properly and subjected to abuses.