'Zimbabwe: when ending child labour does not end child exploitation', 10 Sep 2015:…For half a century, the Tanganda Tea Company…ran a…Earn and Learn scheme whereby children…work[ed]…in return for education…A timetable agreed between Tanganda and the Ministry of…Education stipulated that the children work from 4:30am until noon, and then attend classes from 1-5pm...for six days a week, 50 weeks a year…[T]he only protective equipment provided…[was] sandals…and…aprons…[C]hildren suffered from septic wounds and respiratory diseases…“Some would vomit blood…” says Tracy Muchena, a former child worker who joined the scheme aged 13, but dropped out in her second year… “…It was hell,” she adds…[T]he children earned a dollar for every 60 kg of tea…picked…[A] few years ago, the company faced pressure from rights groups to end the practice...Tanganda’s Human Resources Manager said: “We started preparing to comply with…[international] standards in 2010. In…2011…we failed the audit…[because] Earn and Learn scheme…[was] viewed as child labour.”…[I]n…2013…Tanganda terminated its…scheme…[W]ith no safety nets, the move resulted in…2,000 orphaned and poor children being largely abandoned…