Its immediate objectives are to prevent and progressively eliminate child labour from soccer ball stitching, to provide social protection to those affected by the monitoring, and to strengthen the Pakistani government and NGOs to prevent child labour The project started in October 1997 and its 1st phase has come to an end in October 1999The practice of child labour in Sialkot became a global issue following the broadcasting, on 6April 1995, of a CBS news documentary on the soccer ball industry in Sialkot The programme featured images of children stitching soccer balls in dark and2216 Globalisation why is Omar stitching footballs?
Pakistan The Struggles Of Workers Making Footballs For The Fifa World Cup