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A Child Labour Scene
It was late May 2020, on a cold, rainy afternoon, in an area once rated alongside Chernobyl. ‘Akufo-Addo,’ 8 years old, stood on e-waste heap (discarded computer parts and broken cathode-ray tube [CRT] glasses) in the rain. Born Kevin Twum Barimah, he’s nicknamed after Ghana’s current president due to their uncanny resemblance. Akufo-Addo cannibalizes from […]
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Child Poverty
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. Mother Teresa Kwaku Michael is a 7-year-old scavenger and urban miner who spends his days cannibalizing from e-waste on the margins of Agbogbloshie, Ghana. Child Poverty Images […]
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Urban Poverty Amid Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Let me return to the poverty in which I was born, and gain a livelihood by the labour of my hands… The Literary Panorama, and National Register, Volume 9 by charles taylor Ghana eased its coronavirus lockdown on April 20, 2020, after 3 weeks of partial restrictions on movements in Kumasi and Accra, Ghana’s capital city. While things are […]