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Ghana's Child Labourers

Yalda Hakim joins a team of charity workers, travelling around Lake Volta in Ghana, rescuing trafficked children and trying to help them rebuild their lives.

Tens of thousands of children work for fishermen on Lake Volta in Ghana. Many have been given away by poor families in the hope they would have a better life. But they've ended up trafficked into forced labour, and treated like slaves. Yalda Hakim joins a team of charity workers travelling around the lake rescuing trafficked children, and trying to help them rebuild their lives.

30 minutes

Last on

Fri 3 Feb 2017 00:30GMT

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