By Brigitte Onyschuk | Child Sponsorship Program Manager
During the past few months, we have had incredible success stories in our work to empower communities to fight child trafficking.
One of the most noteworthy achievements we have seen in this quarter was the prosecution of a child trafficker after the rescue of a child that had been re-trafficked into the fishing industry. During a recent monitoring session with previously rescued children, the Challenging Heights field operations team discovered that one of the children had been re-trafficked to Lake Volta. Challenging Heights was able take immediate action to report the incident to the police and, with the help of a Community Child Protection Committee, help ensure the child made a safe return to his home community. The child’s grandmother, who sold him to a child trafficker for approximately $31 USD, was prosecuted and sentenced to 5 years in prison. The police are still working to prosecute the intermediary and child trafficker.
Your donations continue to make it possible to regularly monitor the children that have gone through rehabilitation and reintegration at Challenging Heights. This monitoring involves meeting with parents or guardians and teachers to ensure that the child’s emotional and physical needs are being met through a safe living environment and continued attendance and participation in school. Additionally, Challenging Heights programmes staff was able to provide children that had been rehabilitated earlier in the year with new school uniforms, school bags, and shoes to help minimize the financial burden placed on parents to keep their children in school.
Thank you for continuing to support our work to keep children in school and away from child labour
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