Ghana is commemorating this year\u2019s World Day Against Child Labour with series of awareness creation events in cocoa growing communities in Sefwi Yiaso in the Western Region.<\/p>\n
The day, June 12, was instituted by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in 2002 to focus attention on the global extent of child labour and the action and efforts needed to eliminate it.<\/p>\n
The theme for this year is \u201cChildren in Hazardous Work\u201d, and provides a global spotlight on hazardous child labour, with a call for urgent action to tackle the problem.<\/p>\n
According to the National Programme on the Elimination of Worst Forms of Child Labour in Cocoa (NPECLC), interventions to eliminate worst forms of child labour in cocoa has placed players in Ghana\u2019s cocoa industry on better footing to trade in the commodity.<\/p>\n
Few years ago, Ghana was nearly blacklisted as a result of strong agitation by the international media that the country\u2019s cocoa industry strived on exploitation of children on cocoa farms.<\/p>\n
Samuel Atukwei Quaye, Coordinator of Ghana Child Labour Monitoring System, says government and other civil society organizations have been able to articulate Ghana\u2019s commitment to protect the interest of children in cocoa production.<\/p>\n
He tells Luv News remediation activities under the NPECLC have ensured children are not involved in hazardous work, and their health and education are not impeded by their engagements on cocoa farms.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are not encouraging farmers to use their children in slave-like conditions to produce cocoa. That is not to say that children cannot help or do house chores; they can but there are certain work that they cannot do \u2013 carrying heavy load and walking long distances is not good for these children,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Mr. Quaye noted that an additional livelihood support programme is targeting women especially to provide alternative income sources for families during the lean cocoa season.<\/p>\n
Story by Kofi Adu Domfeh\/Luv Fm\/Ghana<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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