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Is your school interested in learning more about modern-day slavery? Are you ready to join the fight to free the trafficked child?

THERE ARE SEVERAL WAYS YOUR SCHOOL CAN HELP!

Contact a Touch A Life team member about hosting a speaking engagement at your school.

Meet with our team about fundraising and partnership ideas. We’d love to have you in our office any time!

Host a fundraiser or an awareness-raising campaign, like Quarters For A Cause, to benefit Touch A Life. We’ll happily provide you with event ideas, marketing materials, and other information – simply contact us and we’ll get you set up.

Commit to partnering with your classroom, your club, or your entire school in order to raise $125 for Touch A Life. Why $125? That’s what it costs to provide one month of education for a Touch A Life child in Ghana. Because of this donation, your team will help a child in our care to receive higher education, and we don’t think there’s any gift greater than that!

  • Contact Touch A Life to officially enroll your classroom, your club, or your entire school in the program. You can reach us at (972) 725-9380 or at info@touchalifekids.org
  • Set a date for one of our staff members to visit your classroom or club meeting (either in person or via Skype!) to talk about this program. At this time, we’ll share videos and other information that will make you feel connected with and close to the amazing children in Ghana. We’ll leave you with all of the necessary materials and items that you’ll need to spread the word about your project, including Quarters for A Cause stickers and a jar that you can use to collect change. We can also provide you with promotional postcards, DVDs, and other materials upon request.
  • Set a deadline by which you’d like to collect the funds. For some schools, working on a semester timeline makes the most sense, while for others, it’s easier to promote this campaign while studying a specific topic in the classroom. The timeline is up to you!
  • Celebrate once you’ve met your goal! We’d be happy to join you (either in the classroom or on Skype) to thank you for the amazing work that you’ve done, and to talk about ways that you can connect with the children in Ghana after your project is done.

You can touch a life in your school, and in this world, by becoming a global citizen who is passionate about issues (and about people!) all over the globe. Join us today by raising Quarters For A Cause!

FACTS ABOUT EXPLOITED CHILDREN IN GHANA

An estimated 35.8 million people are enslaved worldwide and over 21,000 children are currently being exploited as child labor in the Lake Volta region of Ghana. This high concentration of trafficked children is startling to see on the largest man-made lake in the world.

When the lake was completed in 1965-1966, the waters flooded the river valley of the Volta Region, once a beautiful and prosperous agrarian society full of small villages and farms. Without warning, hundreds of people were displaced by the flood. Many were killed. Today, all the communities around the lake have economies gripped by poverty. Lake Volta, now overfished, is the only source of income for most communities along the shores.

Because of the extreme poverty in lake communities and the lack of education, many families feel that they have no choice but to sell their children to fishermen. Sometimes, deceived by the fishing masters, they believe that their sons and daughters are learning a trade; it becomes an apprenticeship of sorts. Yet the lives that these children live once trafficked can be called nothing but slavery.

VULNERABLE & EXPLOITED CHILDREN

Lake Volta is not the only area in Ghana where children are exploited. Over the past two years, Touch A Life has deepened our partnership with the Ghanaian Department of Social Welfare, looking to provide support for their most vulnerable children. Through this partnership we have learned of children who spend their days forced to work in other dangerous conditions with no access to school or medical care. We have also become aware of children who are not currently in a forced labor situation, but have been abandoned or are in vulnerable situations. These children are not in school, have little to no family support, and are prime candidates for the evil of exploitation.

HOW CAN I HELP?

Touch A Life Foundation is the first non-governmental organization in Ghana to provide long-term housing, education and care to victims of child labor and exploitation. Because we provide long-term care, we are invested in the success of each child, their welfare, education, medical care, and psychosocial development. There are some simple ways that you and your school can get involved in making a difference. Your class or school can join our Quarters For A Cause campaign and help fund higher education for a Touch A Life, or you can host your own event to help raise awareness and resources for other projects at Touch A Life.

 

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