Videos
This is a documentary about trafficked children working on Lake Volta in Ghana, West Africa and Right To Be Free/Africa's work to secure their freedom.
This is a documentary about trafficked children working on Lake Volta in Ghana, West Africa and Right To Be Free/Africa's work to secure their freedom.
Ebele was trafficked from Nigeria to Ghana by Joy, a distant cousin of her father. She suffered merciless beatings and emotional trauma. RTBF rescued Ebele and reunited her with her parents. This video is their heartwarming reunion after years of separation. Read about Ebele's story at our NEWS/EVENTS page, 2023 Newsletters.
The following video features the rescue of five children and the interviews with two trafficking survivors who have gone through the rehabilitation process and are now attending school.
This video tells the stories of three individuals impacted by Right To Be Free's work to rescue and rehabilitate enslaved children and to provide micro grant assistance to impoverished families.
Lincoln Community School in Accra, Ghana created the first chapter of the RTBF Student Club. They created this video to help raise awareness of child trafficking in Ghana and to raise funds for RTBF. The video highlights the plight of Senyo, a rescued boy who suffered crippling injuries while working on Lake Volta and three rescued children, Christian, Mabel and Mawuko.
This is a brief video of Senyo, a young trafficked boy that was rescued in 2014. He sustained crippling injuries after a fall while working on Lake Volta. He was diagnosed with spinal tuberculosis, five crushed vertebrae and required spine reconstruction surgery. RTBF funded his diagnostic and medical treatments for spinal TB and his living costs in a shelter. Thanks to the generosity of our donors, RTBF raised enough funds to help pay for his spine reconstruction surgery in late 2015. He continues to recover and receive physical therapy.
Never was only eight years old when he was given to a fisherman because his family was too poor to care for him. He worked on Lake Volta for three years until Eric Peasah rescued him in 2004. Now he is giving back by working with rescued children and assisting Eric in his community outreach programs. RTBF/Africa works with sending communities (where children are trafficked from) to educate families about child traffickers and what happens to their children when they are taken by fishermen to work on Lake Volta. Eric works with them to develop private enterprise opportunities to help support their families. RTBF/Africa also works with receiving communities (where trafficked children are taken) to educate villagers about the harm that is being done to enslaved children and the importance of sending them to school. Eric also works with them to develop alternate methods of fishing (e.g. creating fish ponds in Lake Volta) so they do not rely on child labor. Never speaks to a receiving village about his life as a trafficked child and what he has accomplished after he was rescued.
Excerpt from Eric Peasah's speech at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service.