With funding from the International Labour Organisation, a project seeking to mainstream and promote awareness of child labour issues, is currently underway. This project is being taken on by Childline South Africa and is affiliates who have over the years seen a growing number of cases related to child labour.

• the toll-free crisis line which provides telephonic counselling for children, a reporting service and also links children to the protection and remedial services when they are identified as exploited through any form of child labour;
• remedial therapeutic care is provided in some service centres which have the resources and expertise to provide such care. This is usually but not always to children who have been commercially sexually exploited;
• child rights education programmes in schools;
• law and policy analysis relating to violations of children’s rights and advocating for law and policy change when this appears necessary will contribute to the protection of the rights, well being and best interests of children; and 
• monitoring service delivery to children whose rights have been violated.

The overall purpose of the project is to promote and raise awareness on the key elements of the National Child Labour Programme of Action; assist and support the TECL (Towards the Elimination of Child Labour) project to mainstream and raise awareness on the worst forms of child labour in South Africa, and either link or provide children affected by child labour to the services they require, via the following:

• research and education on the worst forms of child labour; 
• reviewing training materials; 
• mainstreaming child labour issues in National meetings and forums;
• assisting in the development of Monitoring and Evaluation Tools that will assist in the tracking of the effectiveness of interventions to prevent and manage the worst forms of child labour; 
• researching direct service provision to children affected by the worst forms of child labour; and 
• providing services to or referring affected children to services.

The project was started in January 2008.