About 3 or 4 out of 10 children in the Asutifi South district of the Ahafo Region are into child labour.
The term “child labour” is often defined as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development. It refers to work that: is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful to children
“For months, we have been doing something like a data collection and we have realised that this area in particular, if you pick about 10 children, at least you would not get less than 3 or 4 involved in child labour” Jospeh Baradoe, the Executive Director of Nature Aid told 3news.com during a community engagement at Konkontreso in the Asutifi South district.
These children are either working in a cocoa farm or engaged in illegal miningand most of them are from the northern parts of Ghana.
“We have a number of cases where people are from the northern part of Ghana, given to some landlords here working with them and are not in school” Mr Baradoe revealed.
Nature Aid reports instances where they needed to involve the Police in one of their rescue missions after a child right advocate was attacked in one of the mining communities “we even experienced where we needed to go to the Nkaseim Police station to help us rescue a child after a lady who is a nurse was attacked during a similar mission.”
The child, according to nature is currently in School and on scholarship with support from DKA Austria.
Evans Nkum
