Through start-up packages intended to lessen family poverty, 28 women chosen from seven areas in the Lawra Municipality in the Upper West Region have benefitted.
The start-up supplies were given to the recipients who had received capacity development to help them establish businesses including producing soap, raising rabbits, and providing culinary services.
From the Bagri, Naburenye, Berwong, Methor-Buo, Konukuo, Baapari, and Chaar villages, they were chosen.
The three-year initiative, "Combating Modern Slavery in Ghana," was funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), and the training was organised by ActionAid Ghana (AAG).
To support the government's initiatives "to remove forced labour, end modern slavery, and stop human trafficking in order to achieve the ban and elimination of the by 2025, the worst types of child labour in all of its manifestations.
Director of Programs, Marketing, and Innovation at AAG Justin Naah Bayor stated at the presentation that the organisation was committed to assisting rural women to live decent lives in a comprehensive way.
Human trafficking issue
He said it was based on their observation that young girls and children were the most susceptible demographics being trafficked by intimate relatives, friends, or acquaintances of the victim's family into forms of modern slavery including the sex trade and forced labour that degraded the victims.
The recruiting, transportation, harbouring, or reception of individuals for the purpose of enslavement, forced labour, or servitude, which had grown to be one of the greatest and most lucrative unlawful activities, was what he referred to as human trafficking.
Hence, AAG advised to strengthen rural women's capacities to resist the tendency to be pushed into slavery in order to prevent them from being seduced by false promises of work in metropolitan centres.
statutes and rules
Jacob Dery, the Lawra Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), praised the AAG for its many community initiatives over the years and said that the event was yet another example of how the government is collaborating with business to help young people become self-sufficient.
Mr. Dery observed that the municipal/district assembly were obligated to mainstream to that effect the several laws and regulations Ghana has developed over the years to prevent modern slavery.
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Young women and girls have been discovered to be the most susceptible to this contemporary slavery condition worldwide, according to AA Uganda's Coordinator in charge of Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, and Research, Michael Fredrick Ssenoga.
He praised the administration for offering ways to counteract the operations.
Terence Tienaah, the regional programme manager, welcomed the participants and explained that after conducting research, the organisation discovered that family heads or close relatives were also recruited. As a result, they approached these individuals to release the female beneficiaries for training and the packages.
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