Challenging Heights is a not-for profit organisation that focuses on rescuing and rehabilitating youngsters – mainly boys – who have been trafficked into various forms of slave labour in Ghana.
A spokesperson from Challenging Heights said: “So when a distant relative comes and says they can help you with a child, it is an appealing offer. They have no idea what is happening on Lake Volta, and that the children, as young as five, are forced to work in dangerous conditions, deprived of education and medical care, and made to promise to get married.”
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