IOM Ghana's counter-trafficking project was launched in 2002 and has supported rescue, rehabilitation, return, reunification, and reintegration of 731 formerly trafficked children by now. Children were sold into slavery by their parents to fishing industry and now study in school and live in a safer environment. Before being rescued, these children were often abused, malnourished, and forced to work extremely long hours in deplorable conditions, without no access to medical care and education.
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.
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.
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.
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
Total Funding Received to Date: $60,294
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $471,705
Total Funding Goal: $532,000
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Excel file (projdoc.xls).
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