Social Research Associates (SRI), a consultancy firm in Accra, in collaboration with the Defence for Children International (DCI) Ghana, a non-governmental body at the weekend organized a day’s workshop on child trafficking for identifiable groups in Kumasi.
The workshop was aimed at creating the awareness among participants about child trafficking so that they could also educate their people on the dangers of the practice.
Participants included market women, religious leaders and transport unions.
Addressing them, Dr George Oppong Asare, Executive Secretary of the DCI Ghana, said 50 children rights clubs in basic schools, as well as vigilance committees in 10 communities and industrial concerns had been formed in the Kumasi metropolis.
He said those clubs and committees had been charged to intensify the education among school children and others so that they could serve as peer educators to check the increasing demand of child trafficking which was a threat to society.
Dr Asare announced that the ten communities had benefited from child trafficking projects being implemented by the SRA and DCI Ghana and funded by the International Labour Organization (ILO).
He mentioned the communities as Adum, Asawase, Aboabo, Fante New Town, Asafo, Bantama, Moshie Nzongo, Bourkrom, Sawaba and Dichemso, and stressed that under the programme, a 21-member Steering Committee against Child trafficking had been inaugurated to adopt effective campaign tools and methodologies to eliminate the menace in society.
Dr Sylvester Kwakye, Executive Director of the SRI, said the government and the ILO had put in place a lot of interventions to halt child trafficking in the country.
He appealed to the media to highlight child trafficking and other issues that affected children to enable them enjoy their rights to education, health, shelter and others.
Source: MJFM
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