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Vocational Center for Freed Slave Girls in Ghana

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Vocational Center for Freed Slave Girls in Ghana

Ative Vocational Training Centre

The Centre, which used to operate outdoors under palm trees, is now located in a permanent building. The building now needs a safe, reliable water supply and modern baking equipment.

Ex-Trokosis Dancing

Women, freed from enforced slavery in Ghana, dance in front of the Ative Vocational Training Centre.

Ative Women's Vocational Centre

With help from GlobalGiving donors and donations in kind, the African Women's Development Fund was able to create a permanent struture for year-round vocational training for freed girls and women.

Former Slaves in Front of Ative Center

The Ative Women's Vocational Centre provides ex-slaves with vocational training, so that they may be able to acquire skills to earn a sustainable living.