Kyrenia Castle, Cyprus The first Sunday night in December, a beautiful fake Christmas tree, a lit Yankee candle providing the smell of pine, a glass of red, and an old Amy Grant Christmas album…”Til He appeared and the soul felt its worth…” When does a soul feel its worth? When its chosen. When its remembered. [...]
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And The Soul Felt Its Worth
Posted in C'est la vie, tagged Amy Grant, Aslan, Ayn Rand, Cancer, Child Slavery, Cyprus, Ghana, Kyrenia Castle, Lake Volta, Mediterranean, Sarah Pierce, sex workers, Thailand on December 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Abolishing Modern Day Slavery Podcast
Posted in Child Trafficking, Health and Development, tagged Boston University, Challenging Heights, Child Slavery, Child Trafficking, City of Refuge, Free the Slaves, IOM, Jantsen's Gift, Lake Volta, New York Times, Not For Sale, Pam Cope, Public Health, Touch a Life, UNICEF on August 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Child Slavery in Ghana: The scope of the problem
Posted in Child Trafficking, Health and Development, tagged 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report, Child Slavery, Child Trafficking, Department of State, G/TIP, Ghana, Human Trafficking Act 2006, Lake Volta, The Children's Act, UNHCR on July 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Child Slavery: Approximately 25% of children ages 5-14 years in Ghana were working in 2000. In rural areas, children can be found working in picking, fishing, herding and as contract farm labor. Children also work as domestics, porters, hawkers, miners and quarry workers, and fare-collectors[1]. The Children’s Act sets the minimum age for employment at [...]
The Process of Rescuing a Child from Slavery
Posted in Child Trafficking, Health and Development, tagged Child Slavery, Child Trafficking, George Achibra, Ghana, Lake Volta, PACODEP, Touch a Life on July 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Many of you have asked, “How do you actually rescue a trafficked child from slavery?” In this post, I will do my best to explain the process. (Thank you, Liz, for your amazing editing.) George Achibra founded PACODEP, a non-governmental organization based in the Volta Region of Ghana, which was initially focused on caring for [...]
The story of Teiko: A 6 year old trafficked girl rescued from slavery on Lake Volta
Posted in Child Trafficking, Health and Development, tagged Child Labor, Child Trafficking, City of Refuge, Ghana, Human Slavery, Lake Volta, Touch a Life, Village of Life on July 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Touch a Life partners with several organizations to rescue a trafficked child slave from Lake Volta.
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