By Doris Yiboe | IOM Counter Trafficking (CT) Field Coordinator
“Whenever I recollect my rescue in 2005 by IOM, my heart gladdens because it has made me realize my dream of going to school to enable me become an important personality in the future’’ says Mansah a reintegrated victim of exploitative labour a monitoring visit.
Back in Yeji (a community in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana), Mansah; a girl who is currently 18-years old, wakes up at 5am every day to sweep the house, fetch water, cook, clean and smoked fish amidst other domestic chores. The day continues with her having to go selling food stuffs and fish. While doing all these during the day, she only gets to enjoy food only once before she goes to bed. According to her, remembering all these experiences makes her cry because her ‘’Mistress’’ is a relative of her late mother and she was placed in her care after her mother passed away since she was the most trusted and eligible person in the family to do that.
Living currently in Mafi-Afalekpo; a community close to mafi-Atitekpo (a community in the Volta Region of Ghana) with her guardian, even though situations are not as perfect as Mansah expected, she sees it as a better alternative. She appreciates her current situation more because as much as her guardian has five children of her own, she does her best to provide her with all her basic needs.
Mansah who was exploited for five years before her rescue by the International Organization for Migration in 2005, has always had the ambition to become be a nurse in the future. She is currently in her final year at the Junior High School; should she pass her exams successfully, she will have the opportunity to enter into the Senior High School for three years after which she can enter into a nurses training school to fulfill her dreams.
Donors like you made it possible for Mansah’s life to change. Your continuous support has brought her this far and will spur her on to higher heights. We hope you will continue to support IOM Ghana's CT project and help us to continue to change the lives of Ghana's child trafficking victims.
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