The combination of crippling poverty and a lack of visible job opportunities have pushed children in many African countries to work in gold mines to earn meager wages, often with the blessing of their parents, who are desperate for any income to put food in their families’ bellies. With the child labor market thriving in [...]
Ghana: Alarming Rise in Children Moving Into the Labor Force
July 19, 2012 | Posted by
Increasingly, children are moving into the labor force of the West African nation of Ghana at an alarming rate, reports All Africa. At eleven years old, Thema, a native of Kumasi, hopes to be a nurse when she grows up. Currently, however, she is employed wandering between taxis and tro-tros or minibus taxis at rush [...]
