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Former child labourers campaign for missing kids

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Marin YMCA plans Healthy Kids Day

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 11:46 PM PDT

The Marin YMCA will host its annual Healthy Kids Day on April 24.

The event will feature the first kids mini-Olympic Games, vendor booths on creating a healthy home, prizes, a free pancake breakfast, face painting, a jump house, cooking demonstrations and more. Camp registration also will be available.

The event is from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Marin YMCA at 1500 Los Gamos Drive.

For information, call Louise Chang at 446-2152.

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Aussie kids' TV viewing habits affected by class

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 07:40 AM PDT

Sydney, April 6 : Poor Aussie kids spend an extra 42 minutes before TV screens and games consoles compared to their well-off counterparts, according to a new research.

The study demonstrates that the wealthiest 30 percent of Aussie kids spend over 30 minutes a day more than their poorer peers at school, studying, reading, doing homework and music lessons.

Richer children also take 20 minutes more each day doing organised sport, and 10 minutes more having food.

Tim Olds, lead author of the unpublished research paper and a professor at the school of health sciences at the University of South Australia, examined the data from the 2007 Australian National Children's Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey of nine- to 16-year-olds to come up with the findings.

''An extra 40 minutes a day is three hours a week, and over the course of schooling is equivalent to a year of full-time work. So it does go some way in explaining educational differences [between wealthier and poorer students],'' the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Olds, as saying.

He added: ''It tells us we need to look at ways in which parents can be helped to get kids away from the screen.''

--ANI

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Former child labourers campaign for missing kids

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 02:55 AM PDT

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Wednesday 7th April, 2010 (IANS)

A theatre group of former child labourers has been enacting short skits and campaigning across Delhi along with an NGO to press the issue of missing kids and spread awareness in the capital.

Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA), a child rights organisation which helped in the rescue of children in the theatre group, said that most of the kids who go missing in the city are in the age group of five to six.

'As per our survey, most children who go missing in Delhi are from the northeast area of the city. Most of these kids are girls and 90 percent from the slums and the unorganised sector,' said Umesh Gupta of BBA.

'In most cases it's found that immediate action is not taken by the police on the complaints filed by the parents and despite the parents of the child giving complete detail about the suspected trafficker. As the parents are illiterate they are not able to take the case forward to higher authorities and therefore the case remains unnoticed,' he added.

According to 2009 statistics by the Delhi Police, the capital has the maximum number of missing children in the country. On an average, 19 children go missing in the capital every day and at least six of them are never reported back.

'The missing children are predominantly girls - a fact which leads to a striking revelation that most missing and trafficked children find themselves engulfed in the trap of forced labour, including domestic servitude and commercial sexual exploitation,' Gupta said.

The mobile theatre group of former child labourers started the five-day campaign Sunday.

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