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18Jan

NGO rescues girl, 12, defiled by police officer

A non-Governmental Organisation, Beacon of Hope Foundation has extended support to a victim of defilement.

The 12-year-old girl now 14 years was allegedly defiled and impregnated in May, 2015 by a police officer, Lance Corporal Emmanuel Bartels at Lapaz New Market.

Atinka FM’s Regina Asamoah first broke the story in May 2015 following suspected cover up by the police service.

Atinka News exposure led to the interdiction of the said police officer .However, till date the police have failed to prosecute the police officer for his crime against the 12-year-old girl.

The girl safely delivered a baby boy last year,

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03Aug

Unemployment threat to national security – Haruna Iddrisu

Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Mr. Haruna Iddrisu, has affirmed that the high unemployment rate in the country was “very dangerous and is a threat to national security.”

According to him, the growing unemployment rate among the youth in Ghana was very alarming, stating that if the issue is not addressed soon it will become a threat to national security.

Mr. Iddrisu, who doubles as Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale South constituency of the Northern Region, expressed this sentiment, whiles addressing participants at a workshop organised by the World Bank in Accra Wednesday.

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03Aug

Trafficking in persons report

“If there is a single theme to this year’s Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, it is the conviction that there is nothing inevitable about trafficking in human beings. That conviction is where the process of change really begins—with the realization that just because a certain abuse has taken place in the past doesn’t mean that we have to tolerate that abuse in the future or that we can afford to avert our eyes. Instead, we should be asking ourselves—what if that victim of trafficking was my daughter, son, sister, or brother?

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18Apr

Eliminating Streetism via Education

As part of our goal to eradicate street-ism and support a homeless, poor and unprofessional youth to develop professional skills to enable them establish businesses or for improved employment opportunities for a brighter future, we have developed a Youth Empowerment Program.  This program will select homeless street youth and give them training in the building industry, vehicle repair industry and home care industry.  Trained youth will have tools and finances to establish their own businesses.

In addition, the Foundation will provide counselors and monitoring agents, who will aside counseling trainees, will also help them identify the programs which will best suit them.

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18Apr

Street Hawking – A Ticking Time Bomb

Many scholars have written seminal articles on the growing phenomenon of street hawking in major cities of the country.

As the country’s middle class begins to expand, the quest for survival by the deprived and marginalized in the society has pushed many jobless young ones into the streets.

Street hawking was in the past restricted to the central business districts of Accra, Kejetia and the Adum areas in Kumasi as well as some few travellers’ stops on some major highways in the country. Kpong, Atimpoku, Nsawam, all in the Eastern and Winneba Junction are good examples.

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