Child Care Foundation
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Description: Ghana is situated in West Africa in the Guinea Gulf. With a population of 20 million people its among 18 poorest countries in the planet. According to the United Nations, 45% of its population lives with less than 1 dólar a day.
Child labour is illegal in Ghana as Ghanaian law sets the minimum age for employment at 15. But you can see it everywhere: working in the market, or collecting fares in buses as well as working as domestic servants or cracking stones. On the outskirts of Accra, the capital, these children are working in distressing conditions. Breaking up stones into tiny pieces for construction materials is a hazardous job. Most parents can not afford the fees, and the cost of books and uniforms, to send their children to school so they have to work to help the family's economy.
That is the case of the children to whom Lila McQueen is helping. Lila has been volunteering in orphanages and NGOs for street children for the past four years and while doing that, she used to teach here in Mallam, her grandmothers community and where lots of the children who work in the mines live.
She counts with the help of her uncle, who is a trained teacher but uses a wheel chair, which makes it hard for him to be employed, He is in charge of the smaller ones which in most cases do not know how to write.
They started in October 2004 with two children and now there are almost fifty of them.
Her mother is a trained teacher so she prepares the lessons for her. Lila is now full time with her Child Care Foundation, which is growing every day.
Child labour is illegal in Ghana as Ghanaian law sets the minimum age for employment at 15. But you can see it everywhere: working in the market, or collecting fares in buses as well as working as domestic servants or cracking stones. On the outskirts of Accra, the capital, these children are working in distressing conditions. Breaking up stones into tiny pieces for construction materials is a hazardous job. Most parents can not afford the fees, and the cost of books and uniforms, to send their children to school so they have to work to help the family's economy.
That is the case of the children to whom Lila McQueen is helping. Lila has been volunteering in orphanages and NGOs for street children for the past four years and while doing that, she used to teach here in Mallam, her grandmothers community and where lots of the children who work in the mines live.
She counts with the help of her uncle, who is a trained teacher but uses a wheel chair, which makes it hard for him to be employed, He is in charge of the smaller ones which in most cases do not know how to write.
They started in October 2004 with two children and now there are almost fifty of them.
Her mother is a trained teacher so she prepares the lessons for her. Lila is now full time with her Child Care Foundation, which is growing every day.
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