Out of AfriKids
August 2009
AfriKids is a Child Rights Organisation working to improve life for Ghana’s most vulnerable and disadvantaged children in a holistic, inclusive and sustainable manner
“Yes to education, no to child labour!”
Photo by Paul Knipe
On the Dusty Road to Empowerment
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Lucid Magazine visits AfriKids Ghana “We were all struck by the scope and reach of Afrikids and the exceptional work that's quietly going on to improve the lives of people who would otherwise be forgotten.” Below is an extract from one of the articles The picture above shows celebration from the winning debate team. Below Joe is playing with the velcro ICAP dartboard. AfriKids is delighted to have been chosen as one of the charities for the ICAP charity day on December 9th 2009!
En route to Obuasi we stopped to visit a small village school. We had been invited to chair and adjudicate a debate on child labour between the local school, Gbane, and its neighbour, Shega. We arrived to a packed classroom of students getting into the spirit of the debate with a rousing chant of “yes to education, no to child labour!”
The passion and quality of the speakers’ words made judging hard; the level of research and detail, the in‐ terest and fixation from the floor a reflection of the importance placed on the subject matter. The home team won and the announcement sent the crowd into rapturous ap‐ plause that lasted several minutes. The home cheers combined with the devastation on the faces of the visiting team highlighted how much these students believe in what they were debating about and the effort they had put into it. The session was part of a programme developed by Afrikids to edu‐ cate children on the dangers of child labour and their own rights as children. The children became ambassadors for their
cause and the enthusiasm with which they believed in it was evident at the debate in Gbane. The whole ex‐ ercise was a lesson in the power of education and a positive, home grown addition to the fight against child labour.