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12-04-2007, 02:30 PM
The International Labor Organization (ILO) has begun the second stage of its International Child Labor Eradication Program in the DR. The ILO has a RD$25 million budget, which will go towards helping an estimated 5,100 children who are forced into child labor. Program coordinator Elias Dinzey explained that the second phase includes education services, vocational training, health services and legal aid for these children. Funding for the program is provided by the US Labor Department. Dinzey added that the program would also be targeting children working in urban and rural areas, who engage in domestic jobs and are sexually exploitated.
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