Owners of Shree Saraswati Fix Chimney, Mata Chimney and Kumari Chimney jointly expressed their commitment as part of an initiative to make the district a child labour free area by 2017. They were also felicitated by Chief Secretary Leela Mani Paudyal in the presence various stakeholders, government and non-government officials working in the field of child protection.

According to the Child Development Society (CDC), a local partner of Save the Children, the district has 62 brick kilns and 1,240 children are working there as child labourers. The CDC report states that each brick kiln has employed 20 children on average.

Chief District Officer and District Child Welfare Committee Chairperson Anil Kumar Thakur said the announcement of the three brick kilns will motivate others as well to end child labour in their factories. “This will help us to achieve the goal of making the district child labour free within by 2017,” he said.

A CDC report states that the Valley has 108 brick factories, where children along with their families from Kavre, Ramechhap, Sarlahi, Rolpa, Rukum and Nepalgunj are employed from mid-November to mid-April every year.