NEWS IN GHANA

Assistant Director of Engage Now Africa, David Kofi Awusi says deception is the major technique employed by child traffickers to trap victims. He made this known at a forum in the Mankessim Township located in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region on Tuesday, May 31, 2016. The sensitization and educative forum which comes under the theme: “Children must be in School, not working” was an initiative of his outfit which is an international NGO committed to ending modern slavery and poverty in Ghana and Africa as a whole. The purpose of the forum was to educate Ghanaians on the tricks and strategies that traffickers use in trafficking children in Ghana and elsewhere in the world. It also seeks to launch the presence of Engage Now Africa within the district with tools like education, prevention and advocacy as its three main pillars to empower people against child trafficking and its menace. Modern slavery also known as child trafficking, refers to the recruitment,

Mrs. Felicia Ankrah Halm, Director of Mankessim Social Welfare Department has debunked the assertion that poverty is the main cause of child trafficking as was indicated by many parents at a forum held to dissect the issue of child trafficking in Mankessim. Mankessim Social Welfare Dir.- Mrs. Felicia Ankrah Halm According to Mrs. Ankrah Halm, instead parental misinformation and neglect are the main causes. At the forum held in the Mankessim township on Tuesday, May 31, 2016, numerous concerns were raised by traders, school children and parents attributing the main cause of all forms of human trafficking including child labour, child trafficking in fishing, head porterage (“Kayaye”), sexual exploitation, domestic servitude, forced marriages among others to poverty. However, the Mankessim Social Welfare Department boss who disagreed with this at the same forum, said, “It is what we tell the children and the kinds of pictures we paint for the children to see that is