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Combating Child Trafficking in Ghana
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Summary
This project rescues, rehabilitates and reintegrates children (648 to date) who were trafficked and forced to work under hazardous conditions in various fishing villages in Ghana.
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Received $26,858 from 98 donations from people like:
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The project seeks to provide psychological, material and educational assistance to each rescued child in the fishing villages of Ghana. After being sold from their homes and made to work from morning till night with only one small meal a day to sustain them, these children require these services in order to reintegrate successfully into society. The project also aims to prevent children from being retrafficked by informing and educating both the parents and the traffickers.
Activities
Education and councelling helps children reintegrate in communities, while workshops and micro-credit programs for parents and fishermen help prevent trafficking in the future. Monitoring over 2.5 years serves to track the progress of each child.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $26,858
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $473,142
Total Funding Goal: $500,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Excel file (projdoc.xls).
Resources
Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
The project will protect children from being trafficked in the future and will encourage a culture where child trafficking and child labor exploitation are not viable options for supporting the livelihoods of families or fishermen.
Project Message
Whatever money you give me, I will use toward the childrens’ education so that they can have a better future. One day they will point at you and say "if not for your help, we would not be who we are.
- Nana, Mother of two trafficked boys
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on August 08, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on September 24, 2007.
Latest Update from the Field
36 Children Rescued in January Return Home
By Jennifer Asuako - Senior Project Assistant, August 07, 2008 05:11 PM
All 36 children rescued in January this year (2008) were successfully reunited with their families on the 15th of May, 2008 and began their reintegration process. May 15th is the International Day of the Family and a particular emphasis is placed on the responsibilities of fathers towards their families. Every year, IOM Accra reunites rescued children with their families on this special day in order to highlight the importance of the family in promoting and protecting the rights and development of children.
Several stakeholders from governmental and non-governmental agencies were present at this year’s ceremony, including a representative from the American Embassy.
Before reuniting with their families, the children underwent a comprehensive rehabilitation program with support from health professionals, social workers, psychologists and educators in both the private and public sectors. They also had access to psychosocial counseling designed specifically to enable them to heal from the trauma of their ordeal.
At the beginning of their rehabilitation, the children received medical evaluations and were treated for several diseases including all kinds of sores in their mouths and on their bodies, bilharzias, malaria, anemia, and various skin diseases among others. Two of the children who had severe physical disabilities resulting from their trafficking experience were referred for further assessment at the general hospitals. One of these children suffers from a severe eye injury, while the other struggles with a badly injured spine. The first boy is undergoing treatment under the care of an eye specialist, while the second will have to have a complicated surgery in order to correct his spine.
We are currently soliciting financial support from individuals to help finance his surgery.
All 36 children rescued this year have been placed in schools in the 22 respective communities they come from. All of the children are happy to be able to go to school. One boy, Kojo Tawiah, is especially thrilled about this as he says he has always dreamt of the opportunity to study.
Currently, all 30 parents/guardians of the 36 rescued children are being assessed by social workers in order to enable IOM to support them with Micro-credit assistance.
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