Tuesday 24 July 2012

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.

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