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At least 4,000 garbage-collector children in Tehran: official

Reporting by PMOI/MEK

Iran, June 14, 2020—According to the state-run ISNA news agency on June 14, the Tehran Municipality estimated that about 4,000 garbage collector children exist in Tehran. These are homeless and poor children who have no other means to make ends meet and are being exploited by regime officials to make huge financial gains.

Deputy mayor Mohammadreza Javadi said: “Child labor is a complex and multi-faceted subject and because of this, many measures that have been taken over the years have not been successful, and the number of working children who are begging in the street or selling goods is increasing day by day. Child labor is caused by poverty. The families send their childred to the streets to gain some money.”
This official also added: “The garbage-collector children are a result of abuse and neglect, and we must not allow this abuse of children to take place.” This is while the work of these children is done under the supervision of the municipality itself. While acknowledging this role Javadi said: “Every district has a contractor. Our studies have shown that a contractor usually gives every five to six streets to a group and it usually gets 28 million rials from these garbage collectors and gives them a card. We have plans to reform this system between the working children and the contractor.”

About the number of garbage collector children, Javadi said: “We do not have an estimation of the number of garbage children, but based on Tehran’s waste statistics, the child’s ability to carry dry waste, etc., is estimated to be around 4,000 garbage collectors.”

Child labor in Iran is the direct result of the regime’s criminal and destructive policies. While everywhere in the world, children are going to school to build the country’s future. But in Iran, the children scurry across the streets in hopes of finding something to fill their stomachs for the night.

At the beginning of the academic year, Hamdeli, a state-run newspaper, wrote: “The economic poverty engulfing families is creating a major obstacle in advancing education. One of the most important results is children forced into labor outside of their houses, preventing them from going to school.”

Hamdeli concluded by warning: “The truth is that children who drop out of schools have the potential of acting as a time bomb that can explode any day and any moment. Such an explosion that can not only destroy themselves, but also inflict damage to others and the society.”

Around the same time, Tasnim, another state-run news agency run by the regime’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Quds Force, acknowledged that at least 3.5 million Iranian children have been deprived of education.

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