ABSTRACT
In the first child labor was practiced all over the world, and children were overburdened animals of the burdens. It was common in some parts of the world and can be factory work, mining prostitution, querying, agricultural helping in the parents, business, having ones own small business e.g. selling food, or doing odd jobs. Some children work as guides for tourists, sometimes combined with bringing in business for shops and restaurants where they may also work as waiters other children are forced to do tedious and respective jobs such as assembling boxes, polishing shoes, stocking a stores product or cleaning. However rather than in factories and sweatshops most child labor occurs ir the informal sector selling many things on the streets at work in agriculture or hidden away in houses far from the reach of the official labor inspectors and from media scrutiny. The research work will be undertaken to find out the effects of child labour on academic performance in Kituluni primary school in Kathiani Zone Machakos District. The study is a case study undertaken in Kituluni Primary school. The purpose of the research will be to find out the effects of child labour in academic performance. It will determine the factors ad relationship among the factors that have resulted in behavioral under the study. The objectives will be to find out the causes of child labour, to investigate the effects of child labour on the academic performance, the sample study will include parents teachers and the pupils. The sample study included parents and pupils and teachers. The study was carried out rural child using purposive sampling technique which involved identifying the purpose and selecting the individuals whom the research thought would give the information need or required. The population target involved single parents, orphaned children of unemployed parents after which simple random sampling was done. Questioners were the design employed by the researcher. The pwpose of the study was to benefit parent, teachers, children and the community. The researcher used tables to analyze the data collected. The recommendations arrived from the study were cycle of abuse of child labour. This could be broken children rights must be respected by everybody. The pupils should be nurtured in the proper way and children should holistically be developed in order to improve academic performance.