UNICEF supports a number of projects which reach out to help child labourers. These include:

 

Basic Education for Hard to Reach Urban Children (Bangladesh) - a project helping to educate urban child labourers in Bangladesh.  This project aims to help 350,000 children in six cities.  It makes education available to working children by providing it at times when they are able to come.  They approach employers and try to convince them to let the working children they employ come to classes.  Over two years the children between 8 and 14 learn life skills such as how to care for themselves and basic education (reading, writing, maths etc).

Bal Adhikar Pariyojana (Child Rights Initiative - North India) - this community project went out to 800 villages to tell them why education is important.  Their efforts and the efforts of other organisations who support education encouraged 80,649 children to come back to school.  To reach even more children, 200 learning centres were set up providing informal education with the hope of encouraging some of these students to eventually get into the regular school system.  They also provide small loans to mothers to help them earn income and finance their children's schooling.

Demobilising child soldiers in Burundi, Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo  - (e.g. taking them out of armed groups) UNICEF works in these countries to help children who have been used by armed groups escape their situation and get back into their communities.  Children in this situation need a lot of counselling to help them deal with all their bad experiences as well as skills training so they can find jobs.  Communities also have to be educated about the children and how to support them - this can be difficult as some children have been involved in acts of violence against their community. 

Ndhime Per Femijet (Help the Children - Albania)  - an NGO (Non-Government Organisation) called Help the Children works with sexually abused children, a number of whom have been trafficked to Greece.  They have helped to get 400 children back into schools each year.  Emotional support is also provided to brothers and sisters of the children.

Avenir de l-Enfant in Senegal - a children's charity in Dakar.  They talk to families and tourists about sexual exploitation, raising awareness of the risks to children and their families.

Free Primary Education in Kenya - UNICEF committed funds to the Kenyan government initiative of providing free primary school education.  This was especially important for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS who couldn't afford schooling costs.

MELPWOOD (Mediation for the Less Privileged and Women's Development - Nigeria) - an organisation helping orphans and other vulnerable children teaching them vocational skills so they can make a living and avoid further exploitation.  The organisation also helps fund schooling for the 55 children taking part in the project.

Visayan Forum (Manila, Philippines) -about five million people arrive in Manila each year searching for work and a better future.  Visayan Forum provides help and advice to the children arriving in Manila's port and has set up a halfway house there, operating 24 hours a day.  It also works to persuade authorities to improve laws on child protection and has provided legal advice to young people.  UNICEF provides technical assistance to their campaigning alliance.