NEWS IN GHANA

Both young and adults have received overwhelming empowerment at a public durbar aimed at exposing tricks and strategies that people use in trafficking children and youth in Ghana for exploitation at various places within and outside Ghana. The event took place at Mankessim Township in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region on May 31, 2016. The sensitization and educative forum was under the theme: “Children must be in School, not working”. It was initiated by ‘Engage Now Africa’, an International Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) committed to ending modern slavery and poverty in Ghana and Africa as a whole. The purpose of the durbar was to educate Ghanaians on the tricks and strategies that traffickers use in trafficking children in Ghana and elsewhere in the world. It is sought to launch the presence of Engage Now Africa within some selected districts of the Central Region with tools like education, prevention and advocacy as its three main pillars to empower p

The paramount queen mother of the Mankessim Traditional Area, Nana Ama Amissah III has appealed to all Ghanaians to join the fight against child trafficking which has destroyed the lives of many young children in the country. This, according to her is the only way through which the bright future of children can be guaranteed. Nana Ama Amissah III made the call at an open forum organized by Engage Now Africa, an NGO, held at Mankessim in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region on the theme: “Children must be in School, not working”. According to David Kofi Awusi, Assistant Director of End Modern Slavery, Engage Now Africa, the forum seeks to educate Ghanaians on the tricks and strategies that traffickers use in trafficking children and youth in Ghana for exploitation either in Ghana or abroad. It equally seeks to introduce Engage Now Africa in the district as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with the focus on using education, prevention and advocacy as its thr