Child Labour In Ghana Photos

Child Labour: Akufo-Addo is an 8-year-old urban poor and engaged in hazardous child labour at Agbogbloshie, Ghana. Children working in hazardous environments at Agbogbloshie are exposed to heavy metals such as arsenic, cadmium, lead, chromium, and mercury. Roughly around 19 million children below the age of 12 years are in hazardous child labour worldwide, according to the ILO. © 2020 Muntaka Chasant

Smiling child labourers. Left: Urban poor boy with a prosthetic (artificial) eye. Right: An 8 years old Agbogbloshie child labourer nicknamed 'Akufo-Addo.' © 2020 Muntaka Chasant

Child Labour: An 8-year-old boy engaged in hazardous child labour is having fun on an e-waste dump at Agbogbloshie, Ghana. Around 19 million children below the age of 12 years are in hazardous child labour worldwide, the ILO statistics show. UNICEF estimates that nearly 2 million children in Ghana aged 5-17 years are in child labour. About 385 million children worldwide live in extreme poverty and survive on less than $2 a day, according to UNICEF. This represents about half of the world’s extreme poor. © 2020 Muntaka Chasant

Hazardous child labour at Agbogbloshie: An 8-year-old boy engaged in hazardous child labour handpick pieces of metals deposited in the soil at Agbogbloshie, Ghana. He sold the metals at around GH₵0.80 ($0.15) per kilo at Agbogbloshie. This exposed him to lead, cadmium, arsenic, and other heavy metals. 19 million children below the age of 12 years are in hazardous child labour worldwide, according to the ILO. © 2020 Muntaka Chasant

Child Labour: An 8 years old boy nicknamed after Ghana’s current President (Akufo-Addo) and engaged in hazardous child labour weighs metal scraps at Agbogbloshie, Ghana. Around 73 million children between 5 and 17 years worldwide are in hazardous child labour, according to the International Labour Organization. © 2020 Muntaka Chasant

Child Labour: Akufo-Addo is an 8 years old boy engaged in hazardous child labour at Agbogbloshie, Ghana. 62% of all children in hazardous child labour are boys, according to the ILO. © 2020 Muntaka Chasant

Agbogbloshie child labour: An 8 years old hazardous child labourer is scavenging for scrap metals in harsh conditions at Agbogbloshie, Ghana. According to the ILO, 1 in 5 children in Africa (compared to 1 in 25 in Europe & Central Asia) are in child labour. © 2020 Muntaka Chasant

Child Labour in Ghana: Eight years old Akufo-Addo, engaged in hazardous child labour, is weighing scrap metals at Agbogbloshie, Ghana. More than 24% of children aged 15-14 in Ghana are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. © 2020 Muntaka Chasant

Child Labour: An 8 years old boy engaged in hazardous child labour at Agbogbloshie displays how much he was paid for selling scrap metals at Agbogbloshie, Ghana. 73 million children between 5 and 17 years worldwide are in hazardous child labour, according to the ILO. The minimum age for hazardous work in Ghana is 18, according to Section 91 of the Children’s Act, 1998 (Act 560). © 2020 Muntaka Chasant