DEFINING THE EFFECT OF CHILD LABOUR TRAINING MODULE ON NGO’S ATTITUDES TOWARDS CHILD RIGHTS

Objectives: Child labour is an interdisciplinary issue including the child rights dimension. Child rights training for non-governmental organizations in the means of forfeiture and keeping the rights of children gives crucial responsibility to NGO leaders. The research is done to assess the change of child rights knowledge level of NGO leaders via training. Materials and Methods: The research is experimental and it is accomplished in 4 pilot cities (Adana, Mersin, Ordu, Manisa) in four months between March and June 2018 and 123 persons took part in it. The study is supported by a UNICEF project cooperation with The Confederation of Turkish Tradesmen and Craftsmen (CTTC) and Hatay Mustafa Kemal University (HMKU). In the frame of the research, the leaders are given a four hours of training on child rights and child labour. Child labour survey form and child rights attitude scale is applied to the leaders before and after the training. The permission for the research is got from HMKU Ethics Committee. Gathered data is analyzed by SPSS 22, examined by Kolmogorov-Smirnow test in the means of distribution and then inter-groups Mann-Whitney U test / Kruskal Wallis test is used. Wilcoxon test is used before and after the training and p>0.05 is accepted as meaningful. Results: As a result of the research findings, child rights scale points average of NGO leaders are 97.52±10.95 before training for preliminary test; and 99.02±10.71 after training for posttest. Acquired values gathered before and after child rights training are statistically meaningful (p=0.01). The effect of training compared to the gender of leaders (M/F), working position (President/Worker), working experience (0-11 years), age variables is not statistically meaningful (p>0.05). On the other hand, education level of leaders is statistically meaningful depending on the cities that the research accomplished. Conclusion: Child rights knowledge level could be increased via the training of NGO leaders. The trainings should be increased considering the regional results depending on the pilot studies.


Introduction
The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) supply stimulus and a gold standard which will encourage countries at all stages of development to improve life quality of children. 1,2,3 The CRC is about the rights of all children that their right on health, education, an adequate standard of living, leisure and play, protection from exploitation including child labour. 4 The CRC has had a remarkable impact on the position of children in society both in the Turkey and internationally.
There are currently 168 million child labourers including eighty-five million of them are engaged in hazardous work in the world. The most of child labourers' health, safety and moral development directly endanger in hazardous work. 5,6 Child labourers are at risk of children rights violations in the means of childhood development. 4 In countries involved child labour, many of the Rights set out in the Convention are unreal for most of children (1) . The hazardous conditions of these children cause social harm and high-risk behaviors. 7,8 Child labour is a violation against children, and may cause child abuse and neglect. A few studies about it have addressed an increase in high-risk behaviors in the near future. 7,9,10 Another study focused on prevalence of physical abuse among domestic child labour. 9 The findings of other study, showed 30% of Tehran child labourer are illiterate and some had never attended any formal educational program. 7 Identification of this issue is essential because it can enable non-government employers to design work conditions carefully in order to solve the problem. Their working conditions, hours of labour, working places should be improved by the help of employer. 9,11 Professionals who are in charge of pediatric health can contribute to improve health outcomes through advocacy, policy development, research and service delivery at international level. Professionals including pediatric nurses are highly effective advocates for children rights and their interventions can be reinforcing the situation of child labourers and their families also. Pediatric nurses can, and do, advocate for and implement evidence based research and education program and they can challenge policies and practices that impact negatively on the health of children minors in their local child labour. 12 The aim of the study is determination of the impact of child labour training on the attitude of children's rights of NGO's.

Type of the Research, Date and Place
The research is prospective and descriptive. It is accomplished in four months between March -June 2018. In the frame of United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund and Business Principles collabourating with the Confederation of Turkish Tradesmen and Craftsmen, the program includes 1500 employees and managers in ten provinces (Ankara, Adana, Gaziantep, Hatay, İzmir, Malatya, Manisa, Mersin, Ordu and Şanlıurfa) to inform the employers about the child labour. Research sample is realized by 123 persons randomly chosen from for cities (Adana, Mersin, Ordu, Manisa) in the frame of Project universe. The project is carried out with the participated volunteers of NGO leaders who were invited to meetings. 123 participants answered the survey questions about the sociodemographic information form and child labour. Child Rights Attitude Scale (QMACR) is applied to the participants before and after the training.

The Training Module
The training module is launched out to prevent child labour, to support the children and families, to raise consciousness of employers on child labour, to monitor child worker via workplace based mechanisms, to guide children to social caring system, to direct the children who have potential child worker risks to vocational and technical schools including apprenticeship training center and improve the working conditions of apprentice children. The training module is composed of 16 hours and 2 days. Topics in the module are as following: • Child labour program • Child labour: Concept and content • Current situation of child labour in the world and Turkey

Child Labour Survey Questions
Child labour survey questions are obtained from the ones that take part in the literature (18). The survey is composed of 8 questions based on measuring the perceptions of participants on child labour. One of the choices of participants ("Yes", "No", "I have no idea") is accepted as an answer.

Questionnaire for Measuring Attitudes towards Children's Rights
Questionnaire for Measuring Attitudes towards Children's Rights (QMACR) is improved by Karaman Kepenekçi. 13 Validity and reliability is realized by Karaman Kepenekçi 13 ; the scale is sole factor, total correlation coefficient varies between 0.32-0.61 and Cronbach Alpha internal consistency coefficient is 0.85, half reliability coefficient is 0.77. Scale is composed of 22 questions to define participants' attitude on child rights. In 5 point Likert scale the answers are as "Totally agree", "Agree", "Neutral", "Disagree" and "Totally Wallis test is used to compare the averages more than two. Pretest and posttest analysis were realized by Wilcoxon test. p<0.05 is accepted as meaningful for all the statistical data.

Ethical Status of the Research
Research ethics committee approval is acquired from Hatay Mustafa Kemal University (2018/03) and the participants via written and oral.

Restrictions of the Research
The research is restricted with the samples from 4 provinces; this datum could be used as preliminary data for national and international generalization.

Financial Support
This research is supported by the Confederation of Turkish Tradesmen and Craftsmen (TESK) and UNICEF.

Results
According the sociodemographic data of the participants %65 (80)  gap between is statistically meaningful on behalf of participants between 46-56 years (p=0.044). Depending on the working experience, distribution is responded as "Yes" around %17.9 for 0-5 years, %3.60 for 6-10 years, %78.60 for 11 and more years; gap between is statistically meaningful on behalf of the ones who have 11 years more working experience (p=0.001). Similar responses are given to the 5 th question of Labour survey in the means gender, age, education, cities and working experience. In the means of working position, %50 of managers and %50 of employees responded as "Yes"; gap between is statistically meaningful on behalf of managers (p=0.005).

Discussion
The participants from the NGO's in this research experienced a children rights-based approach to education, while learning about children rights on child labour. According to the data of the NGO participants on labour survey, most of the responses given were similar in the means of gender, age, education, working experience and working position. It is understood that the participants' sociodemographic background effect their opinions on child labour. The study of Khatab, Raheem 14 revealed a significant influence of socio-demographic effect on child labour and violence against children in Egypt also. 14 The other study emphasizes that sensitivity to the economic and cultural context is important in understanding child labour and practices that are in the best interests of the child. 15 Identification of this issue is essential because it can enable NGO employers to design the working conditions in a better manner in order to target the issue for solution. Sum literature results show that the structural and legal barriers of NGO's for realizing children's basic rights should be improved. 14,16,17 The data of QMACR are statistically meaningful between the pre-test and post-test on child labour education from UNICEF Turkey project. This research data demonstrates the success of child labour rights training module. The study of Dunhill 17 is on the children rights education program and the data gathered shows that the perspectives of the children participating in the research -UNICEF UK -improved as well. Research consistently confirms that rights education program makes a positive contribution to the lives of child labourers. 17 The study suggested along with the government, different national and international NGO's should take national child protection system monitoring the children's rights achieving a better level via education and health. 18 QMACR points of bachelor NGO participants are better than other education levels in this study. These points in the pre-test in our study are changed in regional cities. According to the similar research, the regional effect suggests the need to give more attention to some cities that have high rates of child labour. 14 Children's rights as all moral standards are limited to a particular cultural tradition. However, it is necessary to recognize that children around the world face very different cultural, social and economic environments along childhood including child labour. 15 The study of Beazley 19 which is accomplished in a different region explained that child labour is an important issue for child rights activists as it is regarded as informal labour. The Ministry of Labour in Indonesia does not monitor the informal sector; it is not included in the country's labour laws. 19 There is still need to understand regional differences about child rights and clarify their -both positive and negativeexperiences from their own perspective in other countries.
The United Nations Convention on the Children Rights offers special protection for Children that they shouldn't need to defend themselves. Child health professionals need to act as advocates in order to protect the most vulnerable in society. Reducing child labour and its impacts on children is morally and legally the right thing to do. 20 Finally, the research outlines how child health professionals can take action by supporting policies to reduce child labour, providing services that increase consult child rights legislation during child labour and understanding the problem and assessing the impact of action.