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Ghana
Street children
About 80% of these children are between 5 and 14 years old
Difficult living conditions on the streets
Lack of professional qualifications
Prostitution
Their precarious situation makes them particularly vulnerable to exploitation and trafficking
Illiteracy rate of around 70% among these children
Geography
West Africa
Formerly called the “Gold Coast”
Between Ivory coast and Togo
Possible solutions to bring my help
Create an adoption program for children with disabilities or in poor conditions
Create a child sponsorship
Collect solidarity funds on social networks
Create rehabilitation centers
Health and social infrastructures for children and their parents
Create orphanages, adapted school infrastructures,
Violence against children
The Children’s rights are threatened
Difficult school conditions
87% of boys and 86% of girls are attending to elementary school
Parity is respected
BUT 58 % of these boys and 57% do not continue their school education to high school
Classrooms are overcrowded
Lack of course materials
Lack of qualified teachers
Infrastructures are inadequate
Poverty and gender discrimination in the secondary system
Hight child mortality
Lack of health care
Children are nor vaccinated
Deplorable sanitary situation during delivery
Malnourishment
Decrease In the number of children being breastfed
Lack of food diversity
Sexual abuses
27% of girls and 11% of boys
Traditional rituals
These murders are not recorded and no one knows how many children die each year by these obscure practices.
Ritual murders of children
These children have a disability
The belief that they are possessed by an evil spirit
verbal, emotional and physical violence in multiple forms is part of daily life
57% of children interviewed, aged 14 to 17, reported being hit at home either regularly or very often
34% reported experiencing violence at school from teachers
laws allowing the use of "reasonable" physical sanctions on children by parents
Work and servitude (of children)
Child slavery
About 25% of Ghanaian children are working
Human traffic
Girls from 7 to 16 years old and boys from 10 to 17 years old
Prostitution
Drug dealing
Robbery