The magnitude and nature of child labour varies between urban and rural areas. In rural areas, the absence of education opportunities leave children with no alternative but to participate in the work-force at an early age. They perform tasks like grazing of livestock, weeding and harvesting. In urban areas, children they work in hotels, automobile workshops, tailoring shops, carpenter’s and welder’s workshops and engineering works. The children join most of these jobs as apprentice, so that after some years they will be able to run their own shops. The boys receive low salaries in these establishments, as employers exploit this situation to treat them as trainees.

Beside, children help to fetch water (particularly girls) and fire wood. From an early age on, girls are involved in the daily routine of domestic work. During their mothers’ pregnancies and child birth, they remain at home and do all the works.

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