DOCUMENTARY PROGRAM

Topic: Child Streetism In the Upper West Region

Introduction: streetism according to experts is the act in which children spent most of their time in the
street either sleeping there or go home late in the night without care from parents or guardians.
Stretism in Ghana is a social problem for both parents , government and other non-governmental
organization who are into promoting the welfare of children.

According to the United Nations, there is still currently about thirty thousand living in the street of
ghanas cities and town. In Accra alone there are twenty thousand according to estimates by catholic
action for street and N.G.O.

Whats more, most street children in Ghana are said to be between 10- eighteen years , though there are
many who are far younger . most of these children according to research suffer from what can be best
described as “Chronic Homeless”.

The issue of streetism in the upper west region is not of exception, as according to research and reports
the number of children of school going age found loitering day and night at the wa kejetia is on the
increase as the day rolls. What accounted for this? what are the effects of this act to these children and
to the society.

In this documentary, we try to explore the situation, what can be done ? what role can parents play?
What is the role of government in the situation and other development ‘partners in combating the
problem?

We speak Mr. Micheal Bayel the municipal director of the department of social welfare , we asked what
streetism is, and the causes.

Cue:

We speak to some street children who were found loitering on the street at night, the reason why they
have abandone their home to the streets.

CUE:
We speak to some

Republic of Ghana
Well endowed with natural resources, Ghana has
roughly twice the per capita output of the poorest
countries in West Africa. Even so, Ghana remains
heavily dependent on international financial and
technical assistance. Gold and cocoa production, and
individual remittances, are major sources of foreign
exchange. The domestic economy continues to revolve
around agriculture, which accounts for about 35% of
GDP and employs about 55% of the work force, mainly
small landholders. [The World Factbook, U.S.C.I.A.
2009]

CAUTION:  The following links and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in Ghana.
Some of these links may lead to websites that present allegations that are unsubstantiated or even false.  No attempt has
been made to validate their authenticity or to verify their content.

*** FEATURED ARTICLES ***

Give children quality education
www.modernghana.com/news/157167/1/give-children-quality-education.html
gbcghana.com/news/18325detail.html
Six young reporters campaigning on 'Quality Education for all children' a UNICEF project, say
poverty and parental irresponsibility among other things are reasons why many children did not go
to school. The young reporters aged between 10 and 17, sharing their experiences and
challenges faced by Ghanaian children in an interview said during their campaign, it was realized
that many children did not go to school because their parents could not provide them with basic
educational materials, such as school uniforms, exercise books, bags and pens.
They disclosed that, some children they interviewed engaged in different kinds of trade such as
selling iced water, plantain chips and bread rather than going to school because they had to
support their mother's who are mostly single parents, adding that some father's of the children are
irresponsible especially for their education.

Ghanaian minister is on a mission

www.commonwealthtimes.org/?p=7887
media.www.commonwealthtimes.com/media/storage/paper634/news/2007/11/05/News/Ghanaian.Minister.Is.On.A.Mission
-3078605.shtml
Ama, 15, lives in Accra, Ghana. She has no money, food or shelter. She dropped out of school
five years ago. Her mother died from AIDS-related complications two years ago. She never knew
her father.  Ama's tired, hungry and alone. She walks up to a man and asks him for $4 for food. In
return, he wants sex. She obliges and takes the money. She repeats this ritual throughout the
day. It's her only means of survival.  In the United States, prostitution is illegal and punishable by
law. But in Ghana, said the Rev. Eric Kwasi Annan, scenarios like this happen every day, often
involving girls younger than Ana, a fictional example. Why? Because it's legal, and it pays well. -
sccp

What hope for thousands of street children?

His mother wouldn't let him keep going to school, he said. Instead, he was forced to go to work
with her at the market.  So one night he quietly left. He went to Accra where he hoped he would
find someone to support his education.  Instead of school, Anderson had to work. He lugs boxes
and cases, often taller than he is, in one of the city's bus stations. In exchange he gets a handful
of coins.  At night, he sleeps on a cardboard mat in front of a meat shop.
Anderson's best friends are also 13 years old. They stick together for protection, but sometimes
it's not enough.  "Sometimes the grown-up boys beat us, even take our money and that sort of
thing," he said. He also risks being raped and sexually abused.

*** ARCHIVES ***

UNICEF - The Big Picture

U.S. Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs

INCIDENCE AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - In urban centers, street children work mainly as truck
pushers, porters, and sales workers.

Bur of Democracy, Human Rights & Labor - Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005
CHILDREN - The migration of children from rural to urban areas increased, due to economic
hardship. Children were driven to the streets to fend for themselves, increasing both the
occurrence of child labor and the school dropout rate. During the year MOWAC officials estimated
that as many as 40 thousand porters, most of whom were girls under 18, lived on the streets in
major cities, including Accra, Kumasi and Takoradi. These girls were among the most vulnerable
child laborers, as many also engaged in prostitution or were sexually exploited in exchange for
protection while living on the streets. In 2003 the Ghana Statistical Service and the ILO
International Program to Eliminate Child Labor (ILO/IPEC) surveyed 2,314 street children
throughout the country, most of whom lived in the urban areas of the Greater Accra and Ashanti
Regions and had migrated from northern rural areas. Of those surveyed, 45.7 percent had never
attended school, 98.1 percent were engaged in economic activity within the last 12 months, and
80 percent stated the work was demanding. Over three-quarters of street children surveyed
reported that both parents were alive, indicating poverty was the main cause of the problem.

Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 1997
[19] The Committee is also concerned by the increase in the number of children living and/or
working on the street in major cities. It is also worried by the violence that is often directed against
them. The Committee is further concerned by the lack of statistical data and studies on such
children.

Child delinquency on the increase in North

www.modernghana.com/news/204182/1/child-delinquency-on-the-increase-in-north.html
I asked them, in clear words, why they were not in school? And almost all of them expressed the
desire to be in school. Some said though they had parents, they have no money to take them to
school.
I quickly asked, “But don't you know basic education is free in Ghana?” The children intelligently
replied, “So will the government give us books, bags, pencils, pens, sandals and uniforms? There
is no room for us to sleep, and there will be no food after school.” Some said they have to work to
support their family, and take care of junior ones, because their parents had died, or were sick,
old, or just don't work at all.
The children expect to find work in the streets, find friends, earn money, and be able to bring
money home to cater for their families.
The children get sick easily, so they tell me, and there is no money for medicines.
“If someone needs to go to hospital, we make contributions, and if someone hasn't earned money
to buy food, we share what we have.”

Ghana: Who Cares About These Children On the Streets?

This article may possibly also be accessible [here] although registration may be required
WORK THEY ENGAGE IN - The Ghana Statistical Service estimated that approximately 27.2
percent of children aged 5 to 14 years in Ghana were working in 2001.These children work as cart
pushers, bar-keepers, head porters, hawkers, shoe shine boys just to mention but a few. . Ignored
by authorities and the public, they are often the target for exploitation, threats and violence. But
the question is: where are their parents? Who cares about them? Should we pretend not to see it
as a problem or accept it to be normal and live with it?
CAUSES - It will be an understatement to say that these children are suffering. At night, they sleep
in kiosks and in front of stores exposing them to all kinds of diseases and thieves. Vehicles knock
some down. They are easily lured into robbery, drug peddling, child prostitution and other vices.
The girls are compelled to satisfy the sexual desires of their male counterparts to get food and for
protection.

Ghana: Porters, Street Kids Registered for NHIS

www.modernghana.com/news/169028/1/porters-street-kids-registered-for-nhis.html
This article may possibly also be accessible [here] although registration may be required
The Subin Sub-Metro Mutual Health Insurance, in collaboration with the Kumasi Metropolitan
Assembly (KMA), has moved to register porters and street-children in the metropolis, to enable
the less-privileged in the area access healthcare, under the National Health Insurance Scheme
(NHIS). The programme resulted from the realization that most of the porters were located in the
Subin area. Launching the mass registration, Ms Esther Odoom, Scheme Manager, noted that
most of the porters were dying of malaria, and other common diseases, because they cannot
afford medical costs. About 2,000 porters and street-kids were registered at the launch of the
exercise, with 800 of them getting it virtually for free.

Give children quality education

www.modernghana.com/news/157167/1/give-children-quality-education.html
gbcghana.com/news/18325detail.html
Six young reporters campaigning on 'Quality Education for all children' a UNICEF project, say
poverty and parental irresponsibility among other things are reasons why many children did not go
to school. The young reporters aged between 10 and 17, sharing their experiences and
challenges faced by Ghanaian children in an interview said during their campaign, it was realized
that many children did not go to school because their parents could not provide them with basic
educational materials, such as school uniforms, exercise books, bags and pens.
They disclosed that, some children they interviewed engaged in different kinds of trade such as
selling iced water, plantain chips and bread rather than going to school because they had to
support their mother's who are mostly single parents, adding that some father's of the children are
irresponsible especially for their education.

Street Academy organizes Dinner Dance to support children’s programme

www.myjoyonline.com/news/200712/11451.asp
At one time this article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
A call has been made for a study to be undertaken to understand why many more children are
leaving their homes and finding solace in the streets of big towns and cities. “Today the children
on the streets are multiplying as more and more join them, those already there are also starting
families, sadly these families have single parents and if we do not quickly and collectively find
solution to the root courses of this upsurge of streetism things will get out of hand”.
He said it was obvious that most, if not all the children are refugees of one form or the other.
There were cultural refugees, who run away from their homes to avoid being forced into
marriages, undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) and being enslaved under the Trokosi
system, among others. The others are economic refugees who leave for the streets because of
adverse living conditions at home, most likely due to conducts of hostile parents and guardians.

Ghanaian minister is on a mission

www.commonwealthtimes.org/?p=7887
media.www.commonwealthtimes.com/media/storage/paper634/news/2007/11/05/News/Ghanaian.Minister.Is.On.A.Mission
-3078605.shtml
Ama, 15, lives in Accra, Ghana. She has no money, food or shelter. She dropped out of school
five years ago. Her mother died from AIDS-related complications two years ago. She never knew
her father. Ama's tired, hungry and alone. She walks up to a man and asks him for $4 for food. In
return, he wants sex. She obliges and takes the money. She repeats this ritual throughout the
day. It's her only means of survival. In the United States, prostitution is illegal and punishable by
law. But in Ghana, said the Rev. Eric Kwasi Annan, scenarios like this happen every day, often
involving girls younger than Ana, a fictional example. Why? Because it's legal, and it pays well. -
sccp

Committee on child labour, trafficking inaugurated

CAUTION: This link may possibly pose a threat to your PC - www.kessbenfm.com/news_read.php?nid=798
A 21-member steering committee for an International Labour Organisation (ILO) project on
combating child labour and trafficking was inaugurated in Kumasi on Thursday.
Dr. Slyvester Sakyiamah, Executive Director of the Social Research Associates, said the Kumasi
Metropolis had become the destination for most of the children trafficked from the Upper West,
Upper East, Northern regions and other parts the country. He said the children were found to be
cart pushers, bar-keepers, head porters, hawkers and domestic servants among other exploitative
jobs. Dr. Sakyiamah said due to the nature of the work they engaged in, the lack of shelter and
better conditions of life, some of them become street children, who were easily lured into
robbery, drug peddling, child prostitution resulting in socio-economic problems.

Organizations Partner to Build Center for Women and Children in Africa

www.trio-solutions.com/news/project_okurase.shtml
digital50.com/news/items/BW/2001/07/14/20070821005804/organizations-partner-to-build-center-for-women-and-children-in-africa.html
Services at the center will include formal education for street children, many of whom are
orphaned due to HIV/AIDS and who will live at the center, and other local children in nearby
villages. Arts-based skills training will be provided to women, older street children and vulnerable
teens by master craftspeople, visual and performing artists from Nkabom and the Craftspeople
Association of Accra, Ghana. Education in information technology and English as a second
language will be available for adults to make them more competitive in the global marketplace.
Seminars will be conducted to inform the local community about malaria and HIV/AIDS. Children
orphaned due to AIDS will have the chance to grow up in a home with a family on the grounds of
the center, and students from colleges around the world will be given opportunities to intern,
student teach and work at the center, local orphanages, the children's hospital.

Survival of the Fittest: Pushing Wheelbarrows to live in Buduburam

newliberian.com/?p=154
thevisiononline.net/?p=573
He doesn’t have the luxury to attend school. For the past six years, he has worked pushing heavy
loads for at least 12 hours each day, every day of the week. He is one of the wheelbarrow boys
working in Buduburam.
Mehrenburg’s day begins at 5 a.m. That is when he rents his wheelbarrow for 10 000 cedis ($1
US) and begins work immediately, pushing goods within the camp in order to make money to
survive. Clients include shopkeepers who need vegetables, rice, cement, and other loads moved
to and from shops and homes.
Within his 12-hour work day, his only break is a quick 15-minute lunch – that is, if
he can afford it. He said in order to feed himself, he must make 15 000 to 20 000 cedis each day.
With renting costs, he must make 25 000 to 30 000 cedis every day to survive or approximately
$3 US. However, the numbers often don’t add up.

Children push wheelbarrows to survive in Buduburam

neobrouettes.francismizio.net/index.php3?article=919&Rubrique=-%20DES%20VIES%20DANS%20LA%20BROUETTE
thevisiononline.net/?p=472
Samuel David, 14, a refugee child at Buduburam, does not go to school with other children. He
goes to the Buduburam market at 6 am with a wheelbarrow, which was bought for him by his
sister Mamie David. David’s routine includes transporting heavy loads of vegetables and other
commodities for marketers to and from the Buduburam market center and at the residence of
buyers’ returning from Kasoa, a central commercial market town within the same Gomoa
Buduburam District in the Central Region.
David, who starts work very early in the morning and finishes work at 6 pm, said he can’t afford to
go to school. “I am not attending school because there’s no money for fees,” he said. “I give the
money that I earned daily to my sister for food” he said. David is one of many boys who push
wheelbarrows at Buduburam camp. Most of them do this work to survive and do not go to school.

Northern, Upper East & West Are the Suppliers of Street Kids in Kumasi
This article has been archived by World Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here]
Several reasons have been adduced for the swarming of Kumasi by these boys and girls many of
school going age. According to Mr. George Baffour Owusu Afriyie, Executive Director of Street
Children Development Foundation (SCDF), NGO, idleness as a result of dropping out of school,
poverty, lack of parental love for children, are some of the causes of the massive migration to the
South. He mentioned peer pressure, economic factors and on a smaller scale, forced -
marriages, as agents in the north - south movement of the youth.
He explained that the geographical position of Kumasi makes it more vulnerable to the
phenomenon of street children, as it offers a transit point to migrants from all parts of the country
and beyond. These migrants, he said, more often than not terminate their journey in Kumasi and
through the Asante hospitality and good neighborliness, resort to any manner of livelihood to
sustain themselves. Like any other job, being a load carrier or porter has its advantages and
disadvantages.
On a good day a porter can earn between ¢ 30, 000 and ¢ 50, 000. On bad days, however, a
porter has to fall on a colleague to have something to eat. The girls are compelled to satisfy the
sexual desires of their male counterparts to get food to eat. Due to such instances a number of
young girls become pregnant and have to go back home.

Untold stories of “Kayayei”

news.myjoyonline.com/news/200705/4704.asp
www.myjoyonline.com/news/200705/4704.asp
There are thousands of children living and working on the streets, and the number is growing in
Accra. This is a result of increased urbanisation and the difficult socio-economic circumstances
rural families are experiencing. Like other children living and working on the streets, the Kayayei
are vulnerable to all forms of exploitation and abuse, including what may be a higher risk of
exposure to HIV/Aids.
The Ghana Statistical Service estimated that approximately 27.2 percent of children aged 5 to 14
years in Ghana were working in 2001. The report indicates that in rural areas, children can be
found working in fishing, herding and as contract farm labour. Children also work as domestics,
porters, hawkers, mine and quarry workers, and fare-collectors. In urban centres like Accra, street
children work mainly as truck pushers, porters, and sales workers.

What hope for thousands of street children?

His mother wouldn't let him keep going to school, he said. Instead, he was forced to go to work
with her at the market. So one night he quietly left. He went to Accra where he hoped he would
find someone to support his education. Instead of school, Anderson had to work. He lugs boxes
and cases, often taller than he is, in one of the city's bus stations. In exchange he gets a handful
of coins. At night, he sleeps on a cardboard mat in front of a meat shop.
Anderson's best friends are also 13 years old. They stick together for protection, but sometimes
it's not enough. "Sometimes the grown-up boys beat us, even take our money and that sort of
thing," he said. He also risks being raped and sexually abused.

Poverty in Ghana driving children into prostitution

Growing poverty has tripled the number of children living on the streets.  “During my visit to a
class organized for street children by an NGO, I was puzzled to find just a handful of girls in the
class. ‘That's because of the job they do’, the teacher told me. ‘They're all asleep now. They're
prostitutes’. - sccp

Family policies, family planning needed to end child homelessness

www.thestatesmanonline.com/pages/editorial_detail.php?newsid=110&section=0
But The Statesman still thinks that the NPP as a government, and we as a society, should be
doing more to prioritise the development and well-being of the next generation of Ghana’s
leaders. Some action has been taken to tackle some of the supposed root causes of child
homelessness – such as lack of education and rural poverty. But what of the 'problem’ itself – the
thousands of children who live and die on our streets?

Christmas on the streets

www.thestatesmanonline.com/pages/news_detail.php?newsid=1778&section=7
Streetism is one of the most visible problems faced by the youth of today; visible, but
unmeasured, because nobody really knows quite how many street children there are in this
country - they don’t show up on our national censuses and mostly don’t appear on the school
rolls. Catholic Action for Children, a non-governmental organisation, has been tracking the
growth of child streetism in Ghana over the past few years. At the last headcount in 2002, there
were 19,165 street children in Accra alone. The number is up from 10,400 in 1996 when the
survey began, and is estimated to have reached some 25,000 to 30,000 now.
Only those children who actually sleep on the street and have no one to support them were
counted. Some of these include "second generation" street children, whose mothers are street
mothers.

Who Is A Street Child?

Sometimes children find themselves on the street because their parents are too poor to provide
for them. These children are supposed to go to school but instead they sell all kinds of wares,
such as dog chains, toffees, toys, etc. Some of them beg or run errands for survival. Most of
them have travelled from far away villages in search of jobs. But when they move to the cities
they don’t get the jobs and have nowhere to go so they end up sleeping in front of stores and
kiosks.

Streetism and Ghana's future

www.thestatesmanonline.com/pages/editorial_detail.php?newsid=63&section=0
At one time this article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
The Statesman is worried by society’s growing disregard for the street child. But society must
remember that in every street child, we have a potential cutlass wielding robber and a potential or
actual drug addict. These are kids have virtually nothing to lose. They are a threat to themselves
and a threat to the very society that shuns them. We are turning our streets into breeding grounds
for potential terrorists.

UNICEF, DANIDA support Upper West to reduce child mortality

This year's celebration in the region was held at the Wa central lorry park with the main focus on
street children, many whom are victims of the worst forms of violence against children and are
also exposed to all forms of abuse on the streets. Mr Dery urged the street children, many of who
dropped out of school to push trucks in order to earn their living, to avoid the use of narcotic and
other hard drugs and aim at becoming responsible adults in future.

Micro finance scheme launched in Kumasi

www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/economy/artikel.php?ID=109711
At one time this article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
The Street Children Development Foundation (SCDF), a Kumasi-based non-governmental
organisation (NGO), has embarked on a micro finance scheme for porters and street children in
Kumasi. The scheme aims at helping them save little incomes from their work.
Mr George Baffour Owusu-Afriyie, Executive Director of the SCDF, said this when he launched
the scheme in Kumasi on Friday. He said the organisation had so far registered 670 porters and
street children and they would contribute between 5,000 to 10,000 cedis daily.

Information about Street Children - Ghana [DOC]

www.streetchildren.org.uk/reports/Ghana%20Child.doc
At one time this article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
CONSTRAINTS AND CHALLENGES - Girls are less likely than boys to have any form of education,
are known to be less aware than boys about sexually transmitted diseases, despite their
increasing involvement in commercial sex work. This puts them at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS
and of unwanted pregnancy, which helps to explain the large numbers of second-generation
babies born on the street to parents who are themselves street children

The Alternative Africa: Street Children in Ghana - part 1

KWAME’S STORY - Within the first week he discovered that the streets are rough. He was beaten
by other street boys, by city guards and by police. By the end of the first week he had found three
other boys from his area, just a little older, and he joined them and 200 others in their street
dormitory area.

The Alternative Africa: Street Children in Ghana - part 2

SURVIVAL - The girl children have to adopt extra survival strategies. Once the age of puberty has
been reached many of them will have boy minders who will demand sexual favors as payment for
protection. Many small girls will use sex for survival in terms of supplementing their income. It is
too easy to call them prostitutes. A prostitute is for me a professional sex worker. A 14-year old
who offers sex for food and a few shillings to buy a length of cloth is not a prostitute.

Asking questions about feelings

www.onelifebeautiful.com/2006/11/african-dream.html
QUOTES FROM THE STREET - In 2003, Wendy Jones asked street children in Accra some simple
questions and recorded what they said. Their lives may seem very different from our lives but by
reading their replies we can see that they are people just like us, often with the same dreams and
aspirations.
‘If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?’
Peter, 19: ‘My home town.’
‘If you had three wishes, what would you wish for?’
Simon, 14: ‘Shoes. One Shirt. Sneakers.’
‘What makes you happy?’
Sandra, 4: ‘Clapping games.’
‘What makes you cry?’
Sandra, 4: ‘When I am hungry.’
‘If you had three wishes, what would you wish for?’
Sandra, 4: ‘A dress. Sandals. Eggs.’
‘What do you think about last thing at night before you go to sleep?’
Godfrey, 18: ‘I think about the next day. Because I think that evening has passed so I have to think
about the next day. As for the night I have no place to go and I just sleep.’
‘What would you have if you could have anything?’
Peter, 10: ‘A necklace, a watch, a bed I can sleep in, a TV, a video tape – any tape, a chair.’
‘Tell me about your mother.’
Larni, 18: ‘She wants me to be somebody. Yet I am on the streets.’
‘What would you like to do in your future?’
Larni, 18: ‘In the future, if I'm rich – I know I will be rich – yes, I hope, I hope I will be rich, I will care for
street children. Children with broken legs who can't work...’
‘What do you regret?’
Betty, 18: ‘I will say I regret being a street girl and I regret picking a boyfriend. And I regret having bad
friends – those that don't give good advice and wish for your downfall.’
‘What’s your favourite thing?’
Aisha, 19: ‘I have a long black dress. I used to wear it and go anywhere. If I go to an exhibition or to visit
some people I can wear it. I love my long dress. It's fitted with sleeves. It's black.’
[Adapted from: streetchildafrica.org.uk]

Meeting Street Children

More than 11,000 young people are living rough on the streets and the number increases each
day. The majority of these children lack almost all basic needs: shelter, education, health care,
adequate nutrition, economic independence and personal safety. Ignored by authorities and the
public, they are often the target for exploitation, threats and violence.

Who is to Blame for Our Youth On the Streets?

The issue of street children among Ghanaians both in Ghana and in Canada, especially in the
cities of Kumasi, Accra and Toronto continues to raise many questions.

Street Life as Labour: The Working Lives of Street Children in Accra

For the past two years, Yaw Ofosu-Kusi and myself have been undertaking research examining
the working lives of street children in Accra. The project is on-going and involves a programme of
qualitative research exploring the detail of the working lives of Accra's street children. Its
emphasis has been on reaching an understanding of these children's working lives by placing
emphasis on their testimonies. The research has been particularly interested in examining ways
of creating a 'dialogue with a purpose' with these children; on-going ways of providing an
exchange between the researchers and these children's accounts of their working lives. To date
this has involved more established methodological approaches like interviews, focus groups and
recall interviews, but we have also been experimenting with more unusual methodological
approaches such as charging street children with becoming researcher-photographers in order to
provide new sources of data and to create means of further elicitation. Some of the photographs
taken by the children can be viewed here.

Street Children: The Time Is Ripe For Harder Action!

www.afryka.org/pl/afrykaen.htm
At one time this article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
A really new approach we are taking is that we plead for the higher skilled professional categories
also to be thrown open to street children. In Ghana this means striking a different note; the
authorities have to get used to this approach. But I am convinced that in the long run this is the
only chance to prevent social exclusion. Many street children are intelligent; this is pretty obvious
when you manage to survive on the streets by doing jobs such as carrying goods in the market!

Nketsiah Sings For Street Kids

The project seeks to help raise significant amounts of money through eight major concerts to
support five selected Orphanages and Children’s home who have pledged to take up a
considerable number of street children across the country.

All material used herein reproduced under the fair use exception of 17 USC § 107 for noncommercial, nonprofit, and
educational use. PLEASE RESPECT COPYRIGHTS OF COMPONENT ARTICLES. Cite this webpage as: Patt, Prof.
Martin, "Street Children - Ghana", http://gvnet.com/streetchildren/Ghana.htm, [accessed <date>]

Human Trafficking in [Ghana] [other countries]

Street Children in [Ghana] [other countries]