The urban environment is increasingly becoming unfriendly to children in poverty. Millions of children are exposed to extreme poverty in urban Africa. A lot of them are forced to the margins of society, where they suffer severe shelter deprivation. Thousands engage in risky livelihoods that are dangerous to their current and future health. Urban Poor […]
The urban environment is increasingly becoming unfriendly to children in poverty. Millions of children are exposed to extreme poverty in urban Africa. A lot of them are forced to the margins of society, where they suffer severe shelter deprivation. Thousands engage in risky livelihoods that are dangerous to their current and future health. Urban Poor […]
The urban environment is increasingly becoming unfriendly to children in poverty. Millions of children are exposed to extreme poverty in urban Africa. A lot of them are forced to the margins of society, where they suffer severe shelter deprivation. Thousands engage in risky livelihoods that are dangerous to their current and future health.
Kwabena is 15 years, and he’s a child labourer at Agbogbloshie, Ghana. He regularly uses his hands, stones, and hammers to break apart old television sets to recover the iron materials inside, exposing him to dangerous levels of lead. The retrieved iron materials are weighted and sold for GH₵1 (around $0.18) per kilo. This has emerged as a major livelihood strategy for many children, some of whom travel from far and wide, to the center of Accra, Ghana’s capital city.
Check out the article below to see details and more photos of this situation.
Urban Outcasts: Children of Agbogbloshie
See hazardous child labour at Agbogbloshie and a missing child found through this article.
Hundreds of children are growing up in toxic spaces amid scarcity and deprivation. This casts a serious shadow over their future. Hundreds of children such as Kwaku Debrah below are growing up in toxic spaces amid scarcity and deprivation. This casts a serious shadow over their future. Child Labourer With Artificial Eye Kwaku Debrah is […]
They began work at 5:30 and quit at 7 at night. Children six years old going home to lie on a straw pallet until time to resume work the next morning! I have seen the hair torn out of their heads by the machinery, their scalps torn off, and yet not a single tear was […]
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