STILL ADVOCATING A STOP TO CHILD LABOUR

FOR THE PAST TWO WEEKS A LOT OF WORK HAS BEEN,THAT IS WE CONTINUED WITH INTERVIEWS AT THE FISHING COMMUNITIES,GAVE CHILD RIGHTS AND CHILD LABOR TALKS AT TWO SCHOOLS AND TOOK THE RESCUED KIDS ON AN EDUCATION  TOUR AROUND ACCRA.ON THE 12TH,WE WENT BACK TO SENYA TO DO MORE INTERVIEWS AT THE SHOW AND ALSO RELATE TO THE PEOPLE THERE MORE.THIS TIME BARBARA AND PRINCE JOINED THE TEAM.THERE WERE ACTUALLY FEW CHILDREN AT THE SHORE AND AFTER ADAM AND I ASKED SOME PEOPLE AROUND WE WERE TOLD MOST OF THE KIDS WERE AT HOME OR AT SEA.INTERVIEWED ABOUT 20 KIDS AND LEFT FOR THE OFFICE TO CREATE THEIR PROFILES.

ON FRIDAY 13,WE DID OUR NEXT TALK AT PREMIER SCHOOL,BUT THIS TIME AROUND WE DIVIDED INTO TWO GROUPS THAT IS MYSELF,ADAM AND ALI IN ONE GROUP AND PRINCE,BARBARA AND MR BRIGHT IN ANOTHER..THANX TO BARBARA WE INTRODUCED AN ACTIVITY SESSION WHICH WAS REALLY EDUCATIVE AND ENTERTAINING.AFTER THE TALK WE SPENT SOME TIME AT THE SCHOOL TO SOCIALIZE WITH THE KIDS.

ON 19TH HOWEVER WE WENT TO GOMOA FETE ANOTHER FISHING COMMUNITY WHERE WE HAVE ALREADY STARTED WORK THERE AND ALREADY HAVE SOME RESCUED CHILDREN.THIS TIME AROUND ANGELO AND GODWIN JOINED THE TEAM BUT SURPRISINGLY THERE WERE ABOUT ONLY FIVE KIDS AT THE SHORE.WE NONETHELESS INTERVIEWED THEM AND ALSO MET WITH THE CARETAKER IN TH TOWN TO FIND OUT HOW THE RESCUED KIDS WERE DOING.WE WERE TOLD THAT MOST KIDS HAD COME TO THE BEACH EARLIER ON IN THE DAY,SO WE DECIDED TO COME EARLY NEXT TIME.

ON THE SATURDAY,WE TOOK THE RESCUED KIDS ON AN EDUCATIONAL TOUR TO ACCRA,TO PLACE LIKE THE NATIONAL THEATER,KWAME NKRUMAH PARK,AND INDEPENDENCE SQUARE.WE ALL HAD A LOT OF FUN AND ALSO LEARNED A LOT.AFTER WE WENT TO SEA SIDE BEACH TO HAVE LUNCH TOGETHER WITH THE KIDS.THAT IS DIRECTORS,INTERNS,STAFF,CARETAKERS AT THE VARIOUS TOWNS, AND OUR CHERISHED KIDS.THE DAY WAS FILLED WITH SO MUCH UNTIL AFTER THE KIDS HAD DEPARTED FOR THEIR TOWN IT WAS TIME TO SAY BYE BYE TO JENN AKUA DU MOND.SHE WAS AN INTERN FROM THE USA WHO WAS WORKING ON THE MALARIA TALKS AT SCHOOLS AND ALSO WORKING AT THE KASOA HEALTH CENTER.AFTER SPENDING SOME TIME AT  OSU FOOD COURT WE WENT WITH HER TO THE AIRPORT TO SAY BYE.
I SHOULD SAY QUITE A LOT HAS BEEN DONE  BUT THERE STILL IS A LOT MORE TO DO.

TO CREATE MORE AWARENESS ON CHILD LABOR ISSUES CHEERFUL HEARTS FOUNDATION  IS GOING TO BE  GIVING TALKS ON  CHILD LABOR AT VARIOUS SCHOOLS IN THE SENYA BREKU DISTRICT.

  WE STARTED WITH FRANKLIN MEMORIAL SCHOOL ON  JULY 6TH 2012,AT ABOUT 11 AM.MR ERIC,ALI,JOSH,ADAM,SOFIA  AND MYSELF GAVE THE TALK,WITH EACH ONE US TACKLING A PARTICULAR ASPECT.MR ERIC STARTED BY INTRODUCING US TO THE PUPILS AND THE TEACHERS PRESENT AND THEN CONTINUED WITH THE PURPOSE OF THE TALK.HE TALKED ABOUT THE ISSUE AT HAND AND ALSO EMPHASIZED ON THE NEED TO PLAY A VITAL PART TO CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS THE ERADICATION OF CHILD LABOR IN THEIR COMMUNITY.

   SOFIA CONTINUED WITH THE MEANING OF CHILD LABOR,FORMS,STATISTICS OF THE NUMBER OF KIDS ENGAGED IN CHILD LABOR, AND THE STATUS OF CHILD LABOR IN THE WORLD.SHE THEN HANDED OVER TO JOSH WHO ENLIGHTENED THEM ON THEIR RIGHTS AS CHILDREN OF GHANA AND THE WORLD.HE ALSO TOLD THEM ABOUT SOME OF THEIR BASIC RIGHTS AND HOW IMPORTANT THESE RIGHTS ARE AND HENCE CANNOT BE INFRINGED UPON.ADAM CONTINUED WITH A STORY OF A KID THAT WORKED FOR ONLY 50PESEWAS A DAY AND HOW TIRESOME AND HECTIC HIS WORK WAS.HE THEN WENT ON TO ASK IF THEY KNEW OF ANY KIDS THAT WENT THROUGH SUCH DIFFICULT TIMES AND MOST OF THEM SAID YES.HE TALKED TO THEM ABOUT THE RISK INVOLVED IN ENGAGING IN SUCH ACTIVITIES.ALI TALKED ABOUT EDUCATION,THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION,SOME OF THE PERSONAL BENEFITS OF EDUCATION AND PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH NOT HAVING AN EDUCATION.I THEN ENCOURAGED THE PUPILS TO FOCUS ON THEIR EDUCATION,ASPIRE FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE THROUGH A GOOD EDUCATION,HOW IMPORTANT EDUCATION IS TO BECOMING LIKE THE PROMINENT PEOPLE THEY SEE IN SOCIETY AND ALSO PLEADED WITH THEM TO ADVICE THEIR PEERS TO COME TO SCHOOL AND SHUN WORKING AT DANGEROUS WORKING SITES.MR ERIC THEN ASKED IF ANYONE  EXPERIENCES TO SHARE AND ONE BOLD BOY SHARED HIS EXPERIENCE ON HOW HE USED TO WORK AT  THE SHORES AND SOME SAD EXPERIENCES HE SUFFERED.
      MR ERIC CONCLUDED BY ENCOURAGING THEM TO TALK TO THEIR FRIENDS AND THAT CHEERFUL HEARTS FOUNDATION IS PREPARED TO SUPPORT ANY KID THAT GENUINELY WOULD WANT TO SCHOOL.ONE OF THE STAFF MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL SHOWED APPRECIATION FOR OUR KIND GESTURE AND SAID THEY WERE QUITE HAPPY WE DID THE TALK SINCE THEY HAVING DIFFICULTIES EXPLAINING THIS ISSUE TO THE KIDS.
     AFTER, UPON HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH ONE THE TEACHERS HE WAS ALSO HAPPY WE DID THE TALK AND SUGGESTED WE DID MORE OF THE TALKS SINCE WE GETTING CLOSER TO THE FISHING SEASON AND THAT MOST KIDS EVEN THOSE THAT WERE IN SCHOOL GET ATTRACTED TO THE SHORES SINCE THERE IS BOUNTIFUL HARVEST IN THESE TIMES.HOPEFULLY WE WILL BE DOING MORE TALKS IN THE SCHOOL TO CREATE MORE AWARENESS AND SPREAD THE WORD "STOP CHILD LABOR NOW"

CHILD RIGHT AND CHILD LABOR TALK AT NYANYANO

TO CREATE MORE AWARENESS ON CHILD LABOR ISSUES CHEERFUL HEARTS FOUNDATION  IS GOING TO BE  GIVING TALKS ON  CHILD LABOR AT VARIOUS SCHOOLS IN THE SENYA BREKU DISTRICT.

  WE STARTED WITH FRANKLIN MEMORIAL SCHOOL ON  JULY 6TH 2012,AT ABOUT 11 AM.MR ERIC,ALI,JOSH,ADAM,SOFIA  AND MYSELF GAVE THE TALK,WITH EACH ONE US TACKLING A PARTICULAR ASPECT.MR ERIC STARTED BY INTRODUCING US TO THE PUPILS AND THE TEACHERS PRESENT AND THEN CONTINUED WITH THE PURPOSE OF THE TALK.HE TALKED ABOUT THE ISSUE AT HAND AND ALSO EMPHASIZED ON THE NEED TO PLAY A VITAL PART TO CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS THE ERADICATION OF CHILD LABOR IN THEIR COMMUNITY.
   SOFIA CONTINUED WITH THE MEANING OF CHILD LABOR,FORMS,STATISTICS OF THE NUMBER OF KIDS ENGAGED IN CHILD LABOR, AND THE STATUS OF CHILD LABOR IN THE WORLD.SHE THEN HANDED OVER TO JOSH WHO ENLIGHTENED THEM ON THEIR RIGHTS AS CHILDREN OF GHANA AND THE WORLD.HE ALSO TOLD THEM ABOUT SOME OF THEIR BASIC RIGHTS AND HOW IMPORTANT THESE RIGHTS ARE AND HENCE CANNOT BE INFRINGED UPON.ADAM CONTINUED WITH A STORY OF A KID THAT WORKED FOR ONLY 50PESEWAS A DAY AND HOW TIRESOME AND HECTIC HIS WORK WAS.HE THEN WENT ON TO ASK IF THEY KNEW OF ANY KIDS THAT WENT THROUGH SUCH DIFFICULT TIMES AND MOST OF THEM SAID YES.HE TALKED TO THEM ABOUT THE RISK INVOLVED IN ENGAGING IN SUCH ACTIVITIES.ALI TALKED ABOUT EDUCATION,THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION,SOME OF THE PERSONAL BENEFITS OF EDUCATION AND PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH NOT HAVING AN EDUCATION.I THEN ENCOURAGED THE PUPILS TO FOCUS ON THEIR EDUCATION,ASPIRE FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE THROUGH A GOOD EDUCATION,HOW IMPORTANT EDUCATION IS TO BECOMING LIKE THE PROMINENT PEOPLE THEY SEE IN SOCIETY AND ALSO PLEADED WITH THEM TO ADVICE THEIR PEERS TO COME TO SCHOOL AND SHUN WORKING AT DANGEROUS WORKING SITES.MR ERIC THEN ASKED IF ANYONE  EXPERIENCES TO SHARE AND ONE BOLD BOY SHARED HIS EXPERIENCE ON HOW HE USED TO WORK AT  THE SHORES AND SOME SAD EXPERIENCES HE SUFFERED.
      MR ERIC CONCLUDED BY ENCOURAGING THEM TO TALK TO THEIR FRIENDS AND THAT CHEERFUL HEARTS FOUNDATION IS PREPARED TO SUPPORT ANY KID THAT GENUINELY WOULD WANT TO SCHOOL.ONE OF THE STAFF MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL SHOWED APPRECIATION FOR OUR KIND GESTURE AND SAID THEY WERE QUITE HAPPY WE DID THE TALK SINCE THEY HAVING DIFFICULTIES EXPLAINING THIS ISSUE TO THE KIDS.
     AFTER ,UPON HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH ONE THE TEACHERS HE WAS ALSO HAPPY WE DID THE TALK AND SUGGESTED WE DID MORE OF THE TALKS SINCE WE GETTING CLOSER TO THE FISHING SEASON AND THAT MOST KIDS EVEN THOSE THAT WERE IN SCHOOL GET ATTRACTED TO THE SHORES SINCE THERE IS BOUNTIFUL HARVEST IN THESE TIMES.HOPEFULLY WE WILL BE DOING MORE TALKS IN THE SCHOOL TO CREATE MORE AWARENESS AND SPREAD THE WORD "STOP CHILD LABOR NOW"