SECRIFISE

In Ghana, as in other African countries, children have domestic responsibilities and chores often determined by gender. It is common to find children working alongside parents/ guardians in economic activities such as fishing, farming, mining and trading. However, this phenomenon is often exploited by traffickers who persuade low-income parents and guardians to offer their children as helping hands to other people in domestic or economic activities for yearly remittance. Though promised food, education and proper care, the situation often turns out sour for most of these children who end up as slaves at their destinations, such as is common along the Volta Lake in Ghana. Securing Child Rights in the Fisheries Sector in the Central Region and along the Volta Lake in Ghana, (SECRIFISE) is a 3-year European Union funded project that seeks to contribute to the prevention of child labour and trafficking (CLaT), protection of CLaT survivors and prosecution of perpetrators of the act in Ghana.

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