An Anglican diocese in Ghana has launched a campaign to fight child trafficking in the nation. According to Christian Today,
the campaign is slated to take place over five years with a goal of
building a new community shelter for children rescued from the human
trafficking industry.
The shelter would provide a place for children to live and pursue and education.
The United States embassy is also taking part in the project to keep
children from sex trafficking and forced labor. A $5 million agreement
was signed in support of Ghana’s efforts to combat child trafficking.
Bishop of the Accra Diocese Rt. Rev. Daniel Sylvanus Mensah Torto said
that the campaign brings new awareness to the major human trafficking
problem in the country.
The church’s hope is to influence "national and international policies,
laws, and programs that protect children and also push for law
enforcement,” Torto said.
He continued that the "main underlying factor for child trafficking in Ghana.”
According to the Trafficking in Persons report, "Ghanaian boys and
girls are subjected to forced labor within the country in fishing,
domestic service, street hawking, begging, portering, artisanal gold
mining, quarrying, herding, and agriculture. Ghanaian girls, and to a
lesser extent boys, are subjected to prostitution within Ghana."
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