Child trafficking,the Ghanaian story
Enter a caption[/caption] trafficking is an international problem affecting millions of people and many countries around the world. In Ghana, West Africa, the internal trafficking of children is one of the biggest challenges. Many Ghanaian children are trafficked from their home villages to work in the fishing industry, farming in the tropics and selling on the streets. Living in meagre conditions and working long hours every day, these kids are exploited by people desperate to make money at all cost both in rural and urban communities. Created by the construction of the Akosombo dam in the early 1960s, Lake Volta is one of the world's largest artificial lakes. A number of fishermen who have depended on the bounties of the lake for many years report that fish stocks are decreasing, making it difficult to survive off fishing alone. Other work is scarce in a country where unemployment is widespread and approximately 40 per cent of the population live below the poverty line. The ...