“Climate change is one of the fundamental reasons why people migrate, and become vulnerable in the course of their migration,” James Kofi Annan told us
“It didn't make sense to me that I should have to work from 3am to 8pm, typically,” the 42-year-old tells TRT World from Winneba, on the central Ghana coast.
“That was too long a number of hours for a child of my age at that time to work,” he recalls, “sometimes you were working continuously throughout the night, [or] be tortured in many ways when you made a mistake.” Lake Volta, the largest artificial lake in the world in southeastern Ghana has received some degree of attention in recent years as a hub for child labour and exploitation.
James was one of those children. His family migrated to Lake Volta from the coast, where fish stocks had been dwindling for years. “The fishing communities are islands, and you needed a boat to cross the lake. 100 percent of the time you’d be caught if you ran away.” “All I cared about then was education… I didn’t have time to think about anything other than education and food.”
Challenging Heights has been supporting young women from rural areas who move to the capital, Accra. One young woman the organisation came across, whom we will call Kakra, migrated when her family lost everything in a devastating flood.
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