Hundreds of thousands of children in West Africa are working in hazardous conditions on cocoa farms, despite international campaigns against child labour.
Many have little or no access to education.
Farmers say attempts by Western cocoa buyers to force prices down are keeping hundreds of thousands of children out of school and condemning them to a life of poverty.
And they argue that only higher prices and better education can improve the lives of children.
Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris reports from Hiampeanika in western Ghana.
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Activists can pay for their food also
Thats the true traditional style of life
Oral tradition is the best
At lest they r not making tik tok
After Ghana banning rawv cocoa materials to be exported , Now see this…. White games
Leave them. Bunch of hypocrites
What is wrong with this? This is part of the culture
Some people have no choice to have kids working to help the family. Give them money to survive.
These people play dumb as if Amerikkka didn’t have children working only 100 years ago. But they want to force wealthy nation standards on developing nations.
Because our leaders are corrupt
Barking ZIONIST western & irrelevant corporation or recolonized strikes again.. slavery to child slavery labourers again.
FOXCONN ETC too. The list goes on & on
Ghana is still a very poor country because of mismanagement of resources,the minimum wage (1$ per day) in ghana is among the lowest in the world, parents from rural areas give their children to work in farms for them to raise money to feed their family
Stop saying nonsense. do you know what cocoa farm businesses are? If my father’s office is a cocoa farm, where do you want me to go, when I closed from school? Kwaseato
Yes. A poor country. True. The minimum wage is actually around $0.15 a day.
Who is slow at work, he is already the brother of what he destroys.
The reality is even you studied very well in your childhood you will work when you grow up nothings wrong about this child workers they work for the food in plate education is 2nd important things in life
I can see paying more for a bar of chocolate if it means kids get to attend school. They still get to help around the farm but the education helps them and their family.
The middle men know this, they’ll exploit your sentiments to grow their margins
I like Africa
There is nothing wrong when a white child is seen in an apple or grapes farm in the west. There is nothing wrong when a white child helps a parents at the cattle 🐄 farms.. but there is everything wrong when a child helps the father on cocoa farms . This issue is coming up just when Ghana decides to stop the exportation of raw cocoa … surprisingly they paid our fellow Blackman to do the evil .. AFTCA has come to stay . Our market is opened to anyone who comes with equity
Yall want to ruin our cocoa image so bad …
The Headline is misleading because you started with the obvious.
Most cocoa farms are family owned and that means family trip to farms including children who could not stay home alone.
Agriculture is also an education.
There has to be a clear distinction between a child working on his family’s plantation (which he will inherently inherit later in life), and child labour where children and hired out to farms to work without pay and in terrible conditions, without going to school. I worked my mum’s businesses as a child (was under 18) and went to the best school in my state. I learnt the ropes and now own and even expanded the family’s business beyond what my parents ever did. There is a clear difference.
I don’t see you telling us why the Western world is trying everything to destroy the economy of Ghana after the recent ban on raw cocoa exportation.
All these media are good for nothing.
This whole world runs on a imbalance system design to decrease the standard of living for a significant number of people in order to sustain the greed for a few individuals. It’s extremely disheartening to know that these things are actually happening to people.
Ghana hasn’t banned Cocoa exportation. We still export 95% of our cocoa beans. If we don’t export, it will just rot in Ghana because the factories in Ghana can only process about 4% of our yealy cocoa beans.
..And Al jazeera news network is from Qatar, not white.
The danger with harvesting cocoa is that you can easily chop your own balls and pnys off in the blink of an eye, an eye that will soon cry.
Ban
Working in parents farm or business is not child labor unless with extreme circumstances
Aljazeera and foreign media have an agenda. The Western World is trying to portray something which does not exist. In Ghana,Cocobod abhors worst forms of child labour. Child work (ages above 13) that is not hazardous and does not prevent children allows children to learn and support the family. Ghana has a Child labour monitoring and remediation system that is implemented across the landscape. This behaviour of paying farmers and giving chocolates for them to talk is outmoded. IDRIS DID NOT SPEAK TO Ghana Cocoa Board or ICI and this is unfortunate.