Project duration: Ongoing
Project's focus area: You can help rescue them, reunite them with their families, and keep them from being re-trafficked.
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1.Children are sold by parents to fishermen for as little as US$50-US$100, due to ignorance, poverty and broken homes;
2.Trafficked children are never returned to their families, kept under bondage, and forced to work extremely long hours in deplorable conditions;
3.Rescued children have difficulties to reintegrate into society;
4.Children in poor families still face possibility to be retrafficked.
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The project seeks to rescue children back to their families and provide psychological, material and educational assistance to each rescued child in the fishing villages of Ghana. 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. |
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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. |
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To provide sustainable assistance and long-term support to the children whom we've rescued, rehabilitated, and reintegrated, there is the need for caring individuals to sponsor them from afar.
- Joseph Rispoli, Head, Technical Cooperation, IOM Ghana
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Eric Peasah,
Nat'l Officer Managing Combating Child Trafficking
1752 N Street NW Suite 700
Washington, District of Columbia 20036
United States
+1 (202) 862-1826
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