Ghana: Ghana – Covid-19 Pandemic Fueling Child Labor ghanavisions.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ghanavisions.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
“The pandemic has hit Ugandan families hard, forcing many children into exploitative work,” said Angella Nabwowe Kasule, programs director at Initiative for Social and Economic Rights. “The government should immediately get children out of precarious labor situations and increase cash assistance to families to prevent further increases in poverty and child labor.”
The report is based on interviews with 81 working children, some as young as 8, in Ghana, Nepal, and Uganda. In Uganda, ISER interviewed 32 children ages 9 to 16 who worked at gold mines, stone quarries, fisheries, in agriculture, in construction, and selling items on the street.
The vast majority of children interviewed for the report said that the pandemic and associated lockdowns had a negative effect on their families. Many entered the workforce for the first time to support their families. Some said they decided to work because their families didn’t have enough food. “I started working because we were
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Tuesday, 25 May 2021, 12:31 pm
Hundreds of people have participated in the
Velocity Innovation Challenge as entrants, advocates,
mentors and volunteers with the united purpose of bringing
new ideas into the world.
Innovation
Challenge is a key event for the University of Auckland’s
entrepreneurship development programme Velocity.
Students and staff are invited to share a venture idea that
will solve a problem, big or small. Each 1,000 word entry is
assessed and considered for a $1,000 prize with 12 prizes up
for grabs. Entrants can submit ideas for a commercial or
social venture, and this year additional prizes were added
for ideas that tackled an aspect of the United Nations