Today there are over 192,000 people trapped in modern slavery in Ghana [1]. Denied of their rights to education and often lacking parental care or support, over 1.8 million Ghanaian children are working rather than in school (21.8% of the population). Of these an estimated 1.2 million are forced to undertake hazardous child labour including mining, fishing and domestic slavery [3]. The experience of Kwesi is a typical example. Following the death of his father, Kwesi’s mother borrowed money to pay for the funeral. Faced with a debt she was unable to pay her creditor threatened her with jail unless she gave up her son as a labourer. Kwesi was trafficked to Lake Volta to work as a “fisher boy”. and for the next three years, Kwesi worked for an average of 18 hours per day with little rest, no pay and only enough food to give him the energy for more work. By the time we found Kwesi and rescued him, he had suffered extensive emotional and physical abuse and partially lost sight in his left eye. Over 21,000 children like Kwesi, many of them trafficked, are trapped in hazardous labour on Lake Volta in Ghana[2]. We are working hard to bring them home, but want to ensure no one is trafficked in the first place. Please help fulfil the wish made by Kwesi when he gained his freedom: “I want the world to know that no child should be sent into slavery”. [1]. http://www.globalslaveryindex.org/ 2014 [2].International Labour Organisation/International Programme on Elimination of Child Labour (ILO/IPEC) Analytical Study on Child Labour In Lake Volta Fishing in Ghana [3].Ghana Living Standard Survey 6 (GLSS 6): Child Labour Report by Ghana Statistical Services, 2014

Today there are over 192,000 people trapped in modern slavery in Ghana [1]. Denied of their rights to education and often lacking parental care or support, over 1.8 million Ghanaian children are working rather than in school (21.8% of the population). Of these an estimated 1.2 million are forced to undertake hazardous child labour including mining, fishing and domestic slavery [3]. The experience of Kwesi is a typical example. Following the death of his father, Kwesi’s mother borrowed money to pay for the funeral. Faced with a debt she was unable to pay her creditor threatened her with jail unless she gave up her son as a labourer. Kwesi was trafficked to Lake Volta to work as a “fisher boy”. and for the next three years, Kwesi worked for an average of 18 hours per day with little rest, no pay and only enough food to give him the energy for more work. By the time we found Kwesi and rescued him, he had suffered extensive emotional and physical abuse and partially lost sight in his left eye. Over 21,000 children like Kwesi, many of them trafficked, are trapped in hazardous labour on Lake Volta in Ghana[2]. We are working hard to bring them home, but want to ensure no one is trafficked in the first place. Please help fulfil the wish made by Kwesi when he gained his freedom: “I want the world to know that no child should be sent into slavery”. [1]. http://www.globalslaveryindex.org/ 2014 [2].International Labour Organisation/International Programme on Elimination of Child Labour (ILO/IPEC) Analytical Study on Child Labour In Lake Volta Fishing in Ghana [3].Ghana Living Standard Survey 6 (GLSS 6): Child Labour Report by Ghana Statistical Services, 2014

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