Sold by their parents, around 20,000 children work on the lake, enslaved by the fishermen they call “master.”awn breaks over the water. Adam leads a column of five other boys through the high, golden grass to the softly lapping edge of Lake Volta in Ghana’s central region. The group of boys will spend the better part of the day fishing under a hot equatorial sun.
Most of the children come to the lake from hundreds of miles away. They are sold by their desperately poor parents to human traffickers, sometimes for as little as $250, which in this area, is what it would cost to purchase a cow. “When he says you should dive, you have no option. The fearful part is that you might not come back,” Adam says. “That’s what I fear most. You can be stuck down there and never come up. That’s why I’m so scared and don’t want to work on the lake anymore.”
Lake Volta is considered the largest man-made lake by surface area in the world. Much of the land that was flooded was forest, and trees still stand just below the surface. Each week, hundreds of boats come to the Kete Krachi market, where dried fish are sold, often obtained through the work of slave children.PACODEP is a Ghana-based non-profit which rescues the children they meet on the lake, then provides them with shelter and a chance to go to school. Their shelter, called Village of Life, houses roughly 100 children at any given time, most of whom have been trafficked on the lake.
PACODEP runs a school for hundreds of local children, as well as nearly 100 former child slaves, freed by the organization. “I normally visit various homes and get these boys to come help,” says Samuel, through an interpreter. “What this typically requires is to sit down with the family, with a mother or father or relative, sit down with them and agree on terms before you take the child. If your son stays with me for three years, the family normally requests a cow.”
“We haven’t started implementation yet,” says Prince Latif Oyekunle, the Deputy Chief Executive of the Krachi West District. “But we have discussed it at the executive committee meeting and at some general assembly meetings and a go ahead has been given.”In the meantime, Achibra and an armed local police officer he’s brought with him, continue their work on the lake.
Fake news
Slavery: forcefully take people, shackle them, remove them from their land & disconnect from their family, force to work with whips & all, indenture them as a mark of ownership, refuse them rights common to man, segregate, kill rebels. This is child abuse. Slavery? Not sure.
That's sickening 😔
This Is FAKE NEWS.
MikeReeseM That's just awful. Why do people feel the need to OWN other people?! Sickening.
It's almost like it's 1776 again except this time it's not the white man's fault.
Wow
Call Jesse Jackson. Or would he not get enough tv time helping Ghana?
How about you share an authentic story. Real facts.
Modern day slavery. Hypocrisy of the world...
Insanity
This is not true story, most of this kids were given by their parents to these fishermen to be trained as there were no other ways of making money in the fishing communities. Mostly the community have no schools for the kids to go to so this becomes the only way of making a livin
FAKE NEWS BY CNN
Umm it’s called human trafficking, but you guys won’t say it since that’s what you guys promote and support
You can't control other cultures all across the planet
Crystal82028223 Do proper fact checking. Use accurate figures? Tell the truth. First, what's the total population of fishermen and canoe men on the Volta Lake? You people have an agenda: Agenda Setting
Messed up really messed up
How where does one begin this awful situation .
wow, an actual news story? From CNN? Mind blown.....
DsOchoa Ghanaian Government, why are you not doing something about this?
Let's build a statue
joe_nuzz Where are the evil white people?
I believe thier families trade them..this is sad but TRUTH
It’s about time you started reporting stories about modern-day slavery. More people are enslaved now than there ever were in the past.
That is why we need a wall, to help stop child sex traffickers from entering the United states. It will make it easier to stop them.
joe_nuzz 'Fight against modern-day slavery' unless it's called socialism?
joe_nuzz Patriots! Replace the liberal fake news with ConservativeMSM
HolmbergNilla There are many unaccounted child slaves, including Asia and middle East, mostly factory workers such as break kiln laborers
Where are this children trafficked from? Ghana?
Sad!
This story isn't accurate. Sadly
But you have no problem with the human trafficking crisis at our own country's southern border? WWG1WGA
And from the African American community? Crickets.....
What. The. Hell. This is sick.
They should be enslaving ALL Trumpers, white supremacists & the ENTIRE Trump family and Republican Party! There’s no need for them here in the US!
Sadly, no one gives a Rats Ass about Africa.. Slavery, started there. God knows, when.. 1500's Muslims are Killing everyone who do not follow their Religion.. Nothing has changed.. So this is all a Bunch of talk.. A bunch of B.S.. Garbage Journalism..
This is evil 😢
Ocasio vision for American AOC
So let me get this right, you spent likely 15OK$ to do this story, with the limited crew and flight and food and entertainment.Your money, would have saved most of these kids. Instead you filmed it, you're profiting from these kids. Who's Worse, you; or the fisherman WWG1WGA
Sold by parents said it all.
So sad and so sickening
Notice how CNN avoids sex trafficking? Do you hear any female Democrat politician running for President bring up sexual exploitation are women and young girls and the most common identified form of sex and human trafficking is 79% followed by forced labor (18%).5 BuildTheWall
poor children, it’s horrible what adults are willing to do 😞
Tell me again how blacks never enslaved anyone. And here we are in 2019 with slavery existing among the weakest of us.
DEMOCRATS WANT TO ENSLAVE US ALL UNDER SOCIALISM.
Fascinating story, children sold into slavery by their parents, doing dangerous fishing with a man they call 'Master', is it terrible? That depends on your perspective. There are too many guns on the planet, seriously, guns can abolish any kind of slavery. True Story
And these innocent kids pay off their parents dumbness Oh my god!!
Right here in America. The Dems will not change immigration laws. Mexican cartel drug lords getting rich. Sex trafficking. But no Crisis here folks. 🥴
You have forgotten the exploitation of illegal aliens in the United States and the human trafficking.
Hardworking trolls working hard.
If the EU policies in relation to Africa were exposed perhaps parents wouldn’t be forced to sell their children
What's the UN doing about it, condemning it? That'll show those 'masters',
I thought only African Americans were oppressed?! This is why you are alllllll jokes. There is real slavery still going on. Most of it black on black slavery. But complain about hundreds of years ago in America 🙄
Guess they should have been aborted.
Don't forget the new thriving slave trade centers in Libya. Thanks Hillary.
But I thought only white people had slaves?!
Thanks to Hillary and Obama there is an active slave trade in Libya now. What about the many thousands of unaccompanied minors being dragged to our southern border? Sex trafficking?
I thought you were fine with child trafficking.
Let’s worry about Americans
20.000 kids? That's sickening
20,000 is not true figure... Is less but good thing you are exposing it
Better blame white people
Sorry no time, because American liberals are still fighting the 1860s slavery
Dem Elite invited Radical Left to spread hatriate of MAGA POTUS45 MSM served. Now what? Radicals in Congress & Dem Elite afraid AOC purge for voting on solutions. What left? Investigations. Borderless Crooks have to do it in different building due2respect to who made US Great
Where is Sean Penn and Mickey Moore? Oprah?
And he’s not white? But how? They never mentioned this in any story 😳 how long has this been going on!?
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