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Child labour on the streets of Ghana: the issue with underaged street vendors

by Chris Tse August 2, 2011
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We go to malls for shopping convenience.  A hundred stores within walking distance of each other; you can spend a day at the mall and walk out with virtually anything you want.  The Ghanaian mall is pretty similar, except it takes place at every traffic intersection, and there aren’t really stores as much as countless [...]

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The little business people of Bolgatanga

by James Munson June 9, 2011
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Street children who hawk goods in Bolgatanga, the capital of Ghana’s Upper East region, have a hierarchy to climb if they want to make money. At the bottom rung, initiates usually begin by helping people carry heavy goods, especially around the city’s busy bus and taxi station. They then graduate to selling things like sachets [...]

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Youth migration: Child labour in Malawi

by Denis Calnan May 9, 2011

Video and text by Denis Calnan In Malawi today, jobs for children are shifting; traditionally, underage youth were employed on tea and tobacco estates. But now many are working in urban centres, hawking goods on city streets and in markets, according to a children’s rights advocate, Ken Williams Mhango, country director of the African Network [...]

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