Slavery in Ghana by https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78 By: Mollie McMillen, Sofia Garzon, Amy Barry en-us 2018-01-26 13:46:08 UTC 2025-02-21 22:39:26 UTC hello@padlet.com Population and Estimated Number in Slavery mmcmillen2 https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/225041515 The population in Ghana is about 27 million people. The estimated number of people living in slavery is about 103 thousand people.]]> 2018-01-26 13:52:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/225041515 Map of Ghana sgarzon https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/225041752 2018-01-26 13:52:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/225041752 Child Slavery in the Mines of Ghana. sgarzon https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/225042305 2018-01-26 13:53:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/225042305 What is Being Done to Stop? mmcmillen2 https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/225043509 The government in Ghana did not give any government funding. Therefore, they decreased the anti-trafficking efforts. They had educational campaigns funded by foreign donors. They also had radio stations broadcasting anti-trafficking programming ]]> 2018-01-26 13:56:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/225043509 Child labor represented in the children of Ghana fishing in unsafe conditions. sgarzon https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/225043531 2018-01-26 13:56:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/225043531 What organizations are involved in stop slavery in Ghana? sgarzon https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/225044337 - Free the Slaves
- Challenging Heights 
- International Needs Ghana 
- Don Bosco Child Protection Center 
- Partners in Community Development Programme]]> 2018-01-26 13:58:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/225044337 What is being done by Free the Slaves organization to stop slavery in Ghana? sgarzon https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/225046360 They have created a Growing Up Free initiative between the U.S. And Ghana governments. Their four main goals are building a capacity to react to child trafficking, educating and moralizing, meet basic needs, change attitudes and practices of the people and their customs to use vulnerable children and people in slavery. ]]> 2018-01-26 14:02:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/225046360 Boys and Girls in Forced Labor mmcmillen2 https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/225046573 The boys and girls in Ghana are subjected to fishing, domestic service, street hawking, begging, portering, artisanal gold mining, and agriculture. The girls, and sometimes the boys, are subjected to prostitution. They also are subjected to Kent Weaving, and forced begging by religious groups. ]]> 2018-01-26 14:02:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/225046573 What is being done by the Challenging Heights organization to stop slavery? sgarzon https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/225046900 Their goal is to prevent and reduce trafficking of children and protect children's rights by rescuing children and offering a safe rehabilitation and reintegration for them. They help by working with the communities to help the freed survivors and the scared to live in peace and freedom. They advocate human rights to them through educational support.  ]]> 2018-01-26 14:03:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/225046900 What is being done by International Needs Ghana organization against slavery? sgarzon https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/225047680 Their purpose is also to help impoverished communities with educational development and human right initiatives. ]]> 2018-01-26 14:05:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/225047680 What is the Don Bosco Child Protection Center doing against slavery? sgarzon https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/225048309 Their purpose is to provide good health, security, and also education to the children, adults, and victims of abuse and poverty. ]]> 2018-01-26 14:06:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/225048309 Sources mmcmillen2 https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/225048983 “Ghana.” U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of State, www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/countries/2014/226729.htm.

“Index - Global Slavery Index 2016.” Global Slavery Index, www.globalslaveryindex.org/index/.

Ghana « Free the Slaves, www.freetheslaves.net/where-we-work/ghana.]]> 2018-01-26 14:07:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/225048983 What is Partners in Community Development Program doing against slavery? sgarzon https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/225049544 Their motive is to rescue and help children by giving the counseling, shelter, medical screening, education, and help finding their families.]]> 2018-01-26 14:09:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/225049544 Who is benefiting? abarry11 https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/226543856 In the slave trade, many different sections benefit from the forced labor of women and childern. For example, the fishing industry, agriculture industry, religious groups and stores in the market all benefit greatly from the labor they force upon innocent people. Also, the Kent Weaving industry is a major industry that benefits, and uses childern to make the beautiful cloths that the owners sell at high prices. ]]> 2018-01-31 13:43:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/226543856 Dodzi and Her Child abarry11 https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/226548625 2018-01-31 13:52:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mmcmillen2/o3sh6oobcl78/wish/226548625