Ghana: The Assembly of Sisters of Our woman of the Rosary conducts training to prevent human trafficking

The awareness raising program against human trafficking was organized by the Talitha Kum Network in Donkorkrom for schools in the northern plain territory of Kwahu Afram, in the east region of Ghana, in West Africa. The course is supported by Sister Missionaries of Our woman of the Rosary, an global spiritual assembly. The mission of the sisters is to scope out to those experiencing all kinds of difficulties, especially the poor, oppressed and exploited. The course is run by Sister Joy Abuh, typical of Talitha Kum in Ghana.

A missionary visits schools

Sister Joy is simply a Nigerian missionary; she works as a school chaplain and teacher at Donkorkrom Agricultural elder advanced School. Since the beginning of 2024, he has been visiting schools in villages to rise the awareness of students about how human traffickers usage them. She was already at Michael’s Junior advanced School, Donkorkrom, Atakora Basic School, Donkorkrom, St. Mary’s Vocational/Technical elder advanced School, Adeemra and Donkorkrom Agricultural elder advanced School.

The aim of the run is to rise awareness among students about the worrying spread of various forms of human trafficking in local communities. "We educate them about any of the tricks the perpetrators usage to accomplish their goals, specified as giving them false conviction that they will find jobs in cities and save adequate money to take care of their families," said Sister Joy.

The nun besides pointed out any of the dangers associated with trafficking in human beings, ranging from forcing to prostitution, trafficking, serving without average working time, or what can be called "modern slavery", the inability to go to school, against the will of the curious themselves, to which the squad paid peculiar attention to students in visiting schools. "We advised them to be vigilant, as well as to take care of their brothers and sisters, reporting suspicious cases of human trafficking, kid labour, early marriages and another forms of abuse to defend them," the missionary stressed.

Talitha Kum Network in Ghana

Sister Joy shared the hope and prayer of consecrated people that 1 day human trafficking would end, not only in Ghana, but in all parts of the planet where it is inactive practiced. The Talitha Kum Network in Ghana is simply a NGO founded in March 2018. It includes nuns and nuns as well as lay persons. In Ghana, consecrated people work together, under the aegis of the Conference of Higher Superiors of the Orders, to make a common organizational model to combat trafficking in human beings and exploitation that exists at various levels, through information and awareness programs conducted in schools and local communities, and to build awareness of the hazard of leaving villages in search of supposedly "greener pastures" in cities.

Source: KAI / Sister Sylvie Lum Cho MSHR, Vatican News EN

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