More than 40 victims of human trafficking will soon benefit from education and economic empowerment to speed up their recovery.
In order to develop effective community-based solutions to stop human trafficking in the nation, the International Justice Mission (IJM) and United Way Ghana have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
Along with providing for the survivors' needs, it also gives them the tools they need to combat the threat.
The one-year project would start in the Awutu Senya District of the Central Region, according to a statement that was sent to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Cape Coast and co-signed by the Executive Director of United Way Ghana, Mr. Felix Kissiedu-Addi, and the Director of IJM, West Africa, Madam Anita Budu.
It said that the community-based project known as "The Anti-Child Trafficking Project," which supported the IJM-led "Ghana Survivors Network (GSN)," would start with an advocacy programme to fight child trafficking in impoverished communities in Ghana.
About 20 victims of human trafficking will also be empowered and given the tools they need to join other leaders as advocates for vulnerable people at the local, regional, and national levels.
The programme, it was also noted in the release, aims to enhance Ghana's judicial system and to identify, stop, and prevent child trafficking. It also aims to develop public and political will to support, fund, and scale up these methods across the country's communities.
GSN is a member of the Global Survivor Network, a multinational organisation of survivors driving a movement to use their voices to persuade authorities to put a stop to all types of violence and safeguard their communities from them.
United Way Ghana's efforts were acknowledged, and it was said that the survivors' life will be improved by the help. IJM Ghana, United Way Ghana, the Awutu-Senya District Assembly, and the Department of Social Welfare are working together to accomplish the initiative (DSW).
The Senya Bereku survivors' chapter is the most recent of three chapters of survivor organisations in the nation.
The two active chapters are "My Story Counts" in Ehi and Ho, Volta Region, and "Hope in Freedom" in Anyamam in the Ada West District.
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