'He's Not Chotu': Video On Child Labour Grabbing Online Views

The Viral Fever (TVF) in association with the Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation has created the video, which was launched on Monday and has been viewed over 600,000 times on YouTube alone, read a statement.

 

Through the format of an interview, the video describes the terrible lives of working children and the deplorable conditions they work under. These include missing meals, sleeping in cramped spaces, the loss of playtime and the separation from family and education. 

 

The over five-minute long video has a child named Chotu (the oft-used moniker for working children), appearing for an interview to get a job as a domestic worker. He is shown to be accompanied by many other children who are also lining up in the recruitment agency's corridor to get hired.