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Illegal mining drives Ghanaian children from classrooms into hazardous labour
In 2023, Solidaridad supported the Gender Unit of the Minerals Commission to develop a Child Labour Eradication Framework for Ghana’s small-scale gold mining sector, while the two organisations are now piloting an incentive-based child labour-free community initiative in Atiwa West.
A study by Solidaridad West Africa and the Minerals Commission has revealed that illegal mining is increasingly drawing schoolchildren from classrooms into hazardous labour in parts of the Eastern Region.
Mr John Kwasi Osafo, the District Director of Education, Atiwa West District, said children who abandoned school for mining risked being trapped in low-paying and hazardous work, limiting their potential and the future development of their communities.
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