FOR CAREGIVERS

We ask all caregivers, from the government, NGOs and civil society, to consider the following actions, which are intended to increase the forms of services that can be offered, expand the number of children that can avail of them, heighten social impact, and encourage sustainability.

1. Place greater emphasis on all aspects of prevention, particularly direct prevention, and recognize that prevention also involves keeping child domestic workers from being pulled into worse circumstances, such as homelessness and prostitution.
2. Promote the importance of education and training (formal and non-formal), including education for parents, teachers, employers, workers, field staff, and volunteers. Make education more accessible and relevant to the special needs of child domestic workers.
3. Create telephone hotlines and other quick response mechanisms.
4. Coordinate legal protection and enforcement, including the investigation and prosecution of cases of abuse.
5. Set up crisis intervention/welfare/halfway centers that provide holistic programs for needy child domestic workers, such as drop-in facilities/temporary shelter, psychosocial counseling, health monitoring, recreation and services, legal assistance, alternative education/skills trainings, and repatriation services whenever necessary.
6. Develop non-conventional approaches in reaching out to the invisible ones and set up outreach activities in parks, schools, churches and accessible workplaces.
7. Involve child domestic workers at all levels of program implementation and social advocacy.
8. Provide additional interventions for parents and communities to prevent children from migrating for work, such as educational and livelihood programs, medical missions, and other initiatives.
9. Advocate for a paradigm shift from vulnerability to competence among caregivers.

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