Child Trafficking in Ghana

While most children their age are at school or playing with their friends, trafficked children who work in the fishing industry in Ghana are forced to work under the searing heat of the sun. Bonded into labor due to poverty, these children (some as young as 4 years old) spend their days on Lake Volta – paddling boats, collecting fish, diving under water to disentangle nets, or working as domestic helpers in fishermen's homes. They are not given the opportunity to go to school and are often ill-treated and malnourished.

Since 2002, IOM Ghana has been working to rescue trafficked children from the fishing communities of Yeji and Kete-Krachi in the Brong-Ahafo and Volta regions of Ghana. Through the program, IOM Ghana's Counter-Trafficking Team has rescued, rehabilitated and reintegrated into their communities of origin over 700 children. 

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