MODERN SLAVERY. It is heart breaking to see and to know that Parents think more about money than the welfare of their children. This is a harsh reality to know that this is happening around the world and specifically in Tamale, where some parents allow their kids as young as four years to be selling in the rain in the name of poverty. More children between the ages of 5-17 years are engaged in economic activity where hawking shepherding of cattle and sheep, fishing, crop farming are the common child labor activities in the urban areas. Hawking among School going children especially girls in the Tamale Metropolis is springing up rapidly as the life of such children are exposed to road accident, child abuse and other dangerous activities. Some of these girls sell from morning to 9 pm in the night as shown in the photograph. Most of these girls were photographed during school going hours where schools have resume who should be in school, were seen hawking on the streets. Some of the children had different stories to tell when I interviewed them. These children are among 27 million people in slavery in the world who have been engaged in modern day slavery who deserve the same right, dignity and respect in their lives to enjoy the basic human right. Many of these children have been trick by force promises, of good education a better job, only to find they are forced to work and abuse.
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 12:34:39 +0000
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