Luminous Teen

Luminous Teen is an impact initiative intended to ensure a certain degree of Financial Independence for Youth (people ages 15-24), by creating earning opportunities and fostering workplace skills, with a vision to help eliminate Child Labor by 2025. According to the International Labor Organization (ILO) estimation, approximately 5 million children in Bangladesh are full-time workers. UNICEF says, Roughly 160 million children were subjected to child labor at the beginning of 2020, with 9 million additional children at risk due to the impact of COVID-19. This accounts for nearly 1 in 10 children worldwide. Target 8.7 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals calls for an end to child labor in all its forms by 2025. In the 2017 World Report on Child Labour, ILO has identified six policy areas to respond to child labor, focusing on education and social protection for children while ensuring decent work opportunities for adults in their families. However, ILO explicitly says on their w...