Child trafficking: Poverty isn't main cause- Social welfare boss debunks
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.
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Mankessim Social Welfare Dir.- Mrs. Felicia Ankrah Halm
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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 rather deterring children from going to school than the poverty that we always attribute school drop- out to or children engaging in child labour.
“Poverty has been with us since the time of Adams, so why are we saying because of poverty children are not going to school, but engaging in child labour. We all went to school even though our parents are poor. It is the commitment and the zeal of that child coupled with the responsibility of every parent to inculcate that zeal in the child as soon as the child is born,” she rebutted.
Meanwhile, The Assistant Inspector of the Ghana Immigration Service (Saltpond), Ivy Nartey has advised parents to exercise restraint and scrutinize people who come to them asking for their children to come and live with them in the city before leaving them in order not to put the lives of these unfortunate children in danger.
She revealed most of these children who fall as victims to child traffickers are either forced into prostitution or hazardous works; others encounter kidney removal whiles some are even killed for money rituals.
Mankessim is a town located in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region where the practice of child trafficking is ripe contributing adversely to teenage pregnancy, rape, child labour low standards in education ruining bright future of many children.
Majority of young children living Mankessim at the ages of five (5) are meant to go through hazardous labour like fishing in the deep sea, child labour in farming, child labour in illegal mining (Galamsey), street hawking and sexual exploitation among others.
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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 rather deterring children from going to school than the poverty that we always attribute school drop- out to or children engaging in child labour.
“Poverty has been with us since the time of Adams, so why are we saying because of poverty children are not going to school, but engaging in child labour. We all went to school even though our parents are poor. It is the commitment and the zeal of that child coupled with the responsibility of every parent to inculcate that zeal in the child as soon as the child is born,” she rebutted.
Meanwhile, The Assistant Inspector of the Ghana Immigration Service (Saltpond), Ivy Nartey has advised parents to exercise restraint and scrutinize people who come to them asking for their children to come and live with them in the city before leaving them in order not to put the lives of these unfortunate children in danger.
She revealed most of these children who fall as victims to child traffickers are either forced into prostitution or hazardous works; others encounter kidney removal whiles some are even killed for money rituals.
Mankessim is a town located in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region where the practice of child trafficking is ripe contributing adversely to teenage pregnancy, rape, child labour low standards in education ruining bright future of many children.
Majority of young children living Mankessim at the ages of five (5) are meant to go through hazardous labour like fishing in the deep sea, child labour in farming, child labour in illegal mining (Galamsey), street hawking and sexual exploitation among others.
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