5 W/A countries receive support to tackle human rights abuses

The French government has given five countries in West Africa a total of $250,000  to support them tackle issues relating to human right abuses

The beneficiaries are Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria and Cameroon. Each of the countries received an amount of $50,000.

Gesture

The gesture, according to the Advisor for Development and Human Rights at the French Embassy in Ghana, Mr Piere Kernnal

, was geared towards strengthening  national institutions and civil societies in their efforts to fight the scourge of human trafficking and child labour.

According to him, “victims of human trafficking in the world are more than 20 million.”

The project is an initiative being implemented by a humanitarian organisation, Plan International Ghana (PIG). 

It is dubbed,”The  Anti-Human Trafficking Project,”and was launched in 2013.

Shelter homes

Mr Kernnal made this known when the French Embassy, in collaboration with PIG, presented items valued at GH₵18,000 to three shelter homes at the premises of the organisations at Abelempke in Accra.

The beneficiary homes are Don Bosco Child Protection Centre (DBCPC), Tema; the Shelter for Abused Children (SAC), Osu and Ghana Make A Difference (GMD), Mankesim in the Central Region.

The items included two double-door fridges, 90 pieces of insecticide treated mosquito nets, two desktop computers, and two flat screen televisions.

Commendation

The Country Director of PIG, Mr Prem Shukla, lauded the Embassy for funding the project and urged the beneficiaries to use the items for its intended purposes.

For his part, an officer in charge of abuse children at SAC, Mr Christopher Komla, commended the investors for the capacity building training they had received for the past three years.