ARGENTINA

Buenos Aires, February 2012

Has begun a new edition of Garden Harvest, a program that seeks to prevent and eliminate child labor in agricultural areas of Salta, Jujuy and Tucumán. Adecco Argentina and other members of Business Network Against Child Labour, along with public officials, visited the Centers Comprehensive care for children 1 to 8 years through the program implemented.

Since its inception in 2009 with a garden only for 50 children, the program has spread to include 11 Vintage Gardens where over 700 children attending receiving containment and education through activities that guide its development in an integrated way.

This program was implemented to address a pressing need for workers during harvest time, who did not have suitable places to leave their young children and were forced to take them to their workplaces during working hours.

“Harvest Gardens is a very important program for us which gives us great satisfaction in relation to the prevention and progressive elimination of child labor in rural farming. We want to help the children and so we develop this program, “said Esther Parietti, Director of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of Adecco Argentina.