P a g e | 71 Administrative GoL has signed the optional protocol on the Worst Forms of Child Labour. Enforcement of the labour provisions in the CPW Act and the Labour Code is a joint effort between the LMPS and labour officers within the Ministry of Labour. Labour officers for instance attend factories to assess how many children are employed, if proper records of child workers are being kept and the conditions of work. At the community level a church funded not-for-profit organisation Beautiful Dream Society provides shelter and counseling for women and children involved in commercial sex work. The Herd Boys Association of Lesotho provides services for boys employed in herding such as basic literacy classes at night as well as life-skills. Difficulties The Situational Analysis of VC of 2011 said the following about child labour: While the vast majority of children were in school, some were working, affecting a total of 1.5% of all children. Most were in unpaid domestic work (0.6%), followed by paid herding (0.4%). Herding was an entirely male activity, while unpaid domestic work affected males and females equally. The majority of these children involved in paid labour contributed financially to the household (86.9%). Virtually none were noted to be involved in labour considered to be dangerous (although the specific type of work was not independently verified). Respondents were thereafter asked how each child contributed to meeting household needs. Just under 10% did not contribute at all, while another 28.5% were considered to be too young to contribute. The remaining two-thirds contributed towards the household by collecting water (43.3%), collecting fuel wood (12.4%), tending livestock (11.7%), working in gardens (9.5%), or ‘other domestic’ work (28.2%). This question was followed by one where respondents were asked whether any of the work performed by these children ‘prevent him/her from playing with other children, attending school or doing homework to a level that you feel it harms the child’s development’. This affected a total of 1.2% of the children. In breaking this down by the child’s main activity, these children were the ones working in herding animals or in paid domestic work; there was no difference across orphan status or ecological zone, although those in rural areas were more likely to be engaged in work that affected their ability to go to school and have sufficient play time for their development. Male children were more likely to be engaged in such labour (1.4%) compared to female children (1%). There are an alarming number of herd boys in Lesotho as it is a culturally ingrained practice. More information needs to be disseminated about the harms caused to children by herding, such as its interference with the boys education, the lack of nutrition received when eating only maize meal for weeks at a time and the lack of intellectual stimulation when children are isolated in remote areas with only animals for company.