Child Labour : GAWU, Local And International Partners Collaborate To End Menace In Ghana

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Oct 10, 2024 - 14:21

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Child Labour : GAWU, Local And International Partners Collaborate To End Menace In Ghana

By Adu Gyamfi Odopa

(Odopa2@gmail.com)

The General Agriculture Workers Union (GAWU) is collaborating with local and international partners to end child labor in the country.

GAWU in partnership with Danish Trade Union Development Agency (DTDA) visited the North Dayi district and Kpando municipality of the Volta Region where they engaged residents on how to end child labor on the Volta Lake and prioritize education for their children.

In North Dayi, a Community Child Protection Committee (CCPC) was inaugurated on Thursday, September 3, 2024, at the district assembly and supervised by the District Chief Executive (DCE) of the area, Kudjo Atta.

The committee is made up of residents from the fishing communities in the district; their mandate is to campaign against the menace and report suspected cases to authorities.

They are also to intervene in resolving issues of child labor in their communities. GAWU has been working in the two districts for the past years intending to record child - labor - free societies in the various fishing communities.

On his part, the DCE urged the committee members to join their forces against child labor and asked them to report real situations to authorities.

"You are there to report to us issues of child labor in your communities; make sure you have the fact before reporting because a child during the weekend can be helping his father on the shores of the lake after the father had gone fishing,

that is not a child labor, so is very important to spot the actual story". General Secretary of GAWU, Andrews Addoquaye Taggoe urged parents to take children out of child labour.

"In one of our engagements the parents said they want their children to become medical doctors, pilots, engineers, and so on; and I asked them, so going to the lake to fish with you and going to school, which of these will make them become all that you said;

and they (parents) said the school, so this means that we all know our children cannot be what we want them to be in future if we continue to use them on the lake so please take your children out of child labor," he said.

The team after the brief engagement with the stakeholders moved to Aveme-Gborhome D/A basic school of the North Dayi district where they donated a multipurpose playing equipment (seesaw) to the Kindergarten.

They also donated shirts

with the inscription "Child labor, Away!!" to the pupils. The shirts are to be used as Friday wear.

Head teacher of the school, Samuel Srem-Sai revealed that enrolment has increased since GAWU started operation in the area.

However, he appealed for more aid to improve teaching and learning in the school.

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