by Free the Slaves | Jan 16, 2019 | Community Liberation Initiative, Ghana
Owning livestock can transform a family’s future in rural Ghana. An impoverished farmer can sell the cow’s milk, and use its dung for fertilizer and biofuel. Of course, it’s never right to sell your son to get a cow. But that’s what Felix Kaletsi’s father did. A...
by Free the Slaves | Dec 7, 2018 | Community Liberation Initiative, FTS Model for Freedom, Ghana
When they first arrived at the rescue shelter, you could see in their eyes that these children had endured the unimaginable. “We were tied with ropes and beaten, with no food for the day,” they said. “We slept on the bare floor with no blankets.” For these three kids,...
by Joha Braimah | Nov 5, 2018 | FTS Model for Freedom, Ghana
Last week brought high praise for our program to combat child trafficking in Ghana. It came directly from the village chief of Lolonya in the Greater Accra Region. He said our “Growing Up Free” project “has been a blessing for this community and for the children.” The...
by Terry FitzPatrick | May 3, 2018 | FTS Model for Freedom, Ghana, Research, Monitoring & Evaluation
A new research report has uncovered cases of child trafficking and exploitation in six districts of Ghana. Field teams documented more than 500 instances of child trafficking in 20 communities surveyed in 2016, and 107 households with cases of child trafficking in 14...
by Maurice Middleberg | Apr 26, 2018 | FTS Updates, Ghana, Thought Leadership
I am in Ghana this week with news to share that just can’t wait, so I’m writing directly from the field. The work you support has transformed villages where child trafficking used to be common. I’ve just seen it firsthand. It takes time to reach Dzilakope, a remote...