With only $5 a week, you can take stand against child slavery.
- There are approximately 200 million children in the world today involved in child labour
- Child labour is mentally, physically, socially and morally harmful to children
- Ghanaian children as young as three years old are sold by their families into lives of bonded labour.
Can YOU spare $5 a week?
Join LifeLink in the fight against child slavery, and say “NO” to child trafficking.
A simple donation of $5 per week will assist in the provision of medical and educational support in communities affected by Ghana’s destructive fishing industry. By registering with LifeLink, you have the opportunity to empower vulnerable Ghanaian communities to drastically improve the future for their children.
Impact of your contribution
YGAP has teamed up with the City of Refuge Ministries (CORM), a grassroots organisation working in Ghana’s Lake Volta region to stop and prevent the trafficking and exploitation of children in the fishing industry.
Monies raised will go towards providing educational opportunities and medical services to these vulnerable communities. In particular, your contribution will go towards:
- Funding the construction of a school facility including classrooms, library and a computer lab
- Funding community wide seminars, aimed at increasing awareness about the implications of child labour
- Providing financial support towards the salaries of the school teachers in the education facility
- The purchase of school supplies for the children
- Funding the training of community members to implement their own self-sustaining business ventures
- Funding the construction of a medical facility to improve community health and provide counselling for rescued children
- Funding medical assistants’ salaries
- The purchase of an adequate supply of medical supplies of the facility
- Funding the employment of local labourers to help build the infrastructure
- Provide employment for vulnerable single mothers
Child trafficking in Ghana
From 1999 to 2007, 34% of Ghanaian children aged between 5 – 14 were involved in child labour (UNICEF). 
The internal trafficking of children into Ghana’s fishing industry is a terrifying reality. It is not uncommon for Ghanaian children as young as three or four years old to be sold by their families to work in the fishing communities along the Lake Volta region. This form of child labour is modern day slavery. Working as bonded labourers, these children are forced to work up to 14 hours a day either on the lake or as domestic servants. The children live in deplorable conditions, are barely fed and are unfortunately subject to both physical and psychological abuse from their masters. They are outcasts in the fishing communities and have no access to education. As a result of such conditions, these children are highly traumatized and often suffer from stunted growth and water-borne illnesses from lake parasites.
Please help us end this oppressive cycle of child slavery by signing up today. And remember… every child counts.
** All donations to LifeLink greater than $2 are tax deductible.
** YGAP & LifeLink proudly work in partnership with the World Relief Overseas Aid Organisation.
Contact louise.atkins@y-gap.org for general enquiries, or to arrange direct-debit donations.