Child labour in agriculture on Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho

GMA Network’s Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho (One at heart, Jessica Soho) featured a child ploughing a two-hectare field in the Philippines. ILO’s Gwendolyn Fabros talked about the ARISE Project with the Government of Japan to reduce the worst forms of child labour in agricultural communities.

Date issued: 30 May 2021 | Size/duration: 13:06


GMA Network’s highest-ranking magazine show Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho (One at heart, Jessica Soho) featured a 10-year old Reymark tirelessly ploughing a two-hectare field in Sultan Kudarat, Philippines.

Hosted by the country’s most awarded broadcast journalist Ms Jessica Soho, the second episode on Reymark featured interventions to end child labour and donations that poured in from netizens.

ILO’s Gwendolyn Fabros talked about the Achieving reduction of child labour in support of education (ARISE) Project in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Through this ILO-Japan Multi-bilateral Programme, the project aims to reduce the worst forms of child labour in the agricultural communities.