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 ...

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 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...