PARENTS' RESPONSIBILITY

I was nudged by several people to get this topic written about. Child trafficking in Africa takes on various forms. The reason it happens so easily and frequently is because responsibility for children is viewed as communal. So parents think nothing of handing their child off to someone who makes promises. After all, they have too many children to take care of as it is.

Sometimes the children, if they are lucky, end up being unpaid servants in the household that gets them. Others fare worse. Few get an education, although that is usually the promise. Around the continent, the chocolate industry, the sugarcane industry, mining and fishing are all known to use children who have been acquired by various means.

I did a lot of my research for this topic on line. But since distributing it I have heard more first and second hand stories of situations that children have been put into.

I have this in French for your listening pleasure.