This Week at IIECL - International Initiative to End Child Labor

Applications being accepted for Emily Grants

If you are a young person, a teacher, school, or non-governmental organization working with children and/or youth and need a small amount of funds to support a project idea to help end exploitative child labor, we want to hear your ideas.

ECL, in collaboration with the Emily Sandall Foundation, will be awarding mini-grants for the fall 2010 year. Individual awards are a maximum of $500. Applications must be received on or before September 1, 2010. Awards are reviewed by ECL and a committee at the Emily Sandall Memorial Foundation. Selected organization will receive notification and the public announcement will be released via ECL’s website. Reports of past award grantees are contained on the website. For further information regarding the application process, please refer to the Emily Sandall Grants section of the website.

Youth and young adults are encouraged to apply. Be creative with your ideas as to how to raise awareness and promote education to end child labor at your school and / or local community. The deadline of September 1 is here, so apply by midnight today!

ABOUT

The International Initiative on Exploitative Child Labor (IIECL), also commonly known as the International Initiative to End Child Labor, is a US-based, not-for-profit [US IRS approved 501 (c) (3)] organization, incorporated in 1999. We conduct and/or provides education, training, technical assistance, capacity building, research, social accountability auditing, resources, and evaluation services to public and private institutions and agencies, non-governmental organizations, and international programmatic institutions that seek to eliminate the worst forms of child labor in the United States and around the world.