ActionAid rolls out education against Child trafficking                    

ActionAid Ghana in partnership with the General Agricultural Workers Union with funding support from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation has taken steps to combat slavery in Ghana.

Under the theme: "Combating Modern Slavery in Ghana Project", the project through strategic advocacy and empowerment interventions seeks to reduce the incidence of modern slavery within the agricultural sector in four regions (Northern, Upper West, Bono, and Oti regions) where the issues of modern slavery in agriculture are pronounced.
At the opening of a 3-day workshop for CSOs-Government Agencies on Modern Slavery, Kwame Afram Denkyira, ActionAid Programme Officer, noted despite national, sub-regional and global efforts to prevent human trafficking, child trafficking is still rampant in Ghana.

"These trafficked children have been made to work in the fishing sector, especially in river communities, engage in street hawking, begging, artisanal gold mining, quarrying, herding of cattle and sheep, and as labor in the agriculture sector." he pointed out.

According to him, in Ghana spite of the enactment of many laws against modern slavery, children and women continue to be trafficked internally and across the shores of Ghana to other countries.

The ActionAid program officer revealed 'there were 40 million people in modern slavery in 2017".

This included: 25 million people in forced labor and 15 million people in forced marriage, with one in four (25%) victims of modern slavery being children.