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DeirEzzor24 exclusive report:
DeirEzzor24 network monitored through its correspondents the growing phenomenon of child labor in recent years throughout Deir Ezzor governorate.
The reasons for the increase in this phenomenon, according to what Deir Ezzor 24 monitored, are due to the loss of a large number of families to the breadwinner, and the presence of other families exhausted by destitution and forced by the hardship of displacement, which pushed their children to work and help the family.
A large number of children are spread in the markets selling all kinds of soft items such as packs of tobacco, lighters, biscuits or tissues. They enter shops, cafes and even gatherings in front of government departments to sell their goods.
In maintenance and barber shops, car offices and falafel restaurants, the number of working children has become very large after circumstances forced them to leave their schools and join the labor market to support their families.
The professions that children join in the countryside of Deir Ezzor vary. There are children working in primitive oil burners, despite the dangers and diseases involved, and others working in the field of grazing or plowing, and the reasons for their work are due to the same reasons mentioned previously.
The dire economic situation that has dominated the province of Deir Ezzor for years, and the war of the Assad regime against the Syrian people, has deprived a large segment of Deir Ezzor’s children of their minimum rights, and pushed them to bear responsibility away from school seats and playgrounds.
