Adam is just one of 20,000 children on Lake Volta who the International Labour Organization reports are working for slave masters. Most of the children come to the lake from hundreds of miles away.

“Human trafficking is the movement of people for the purpose of exploitation and is a form of modern slavery. 22% of children in Ghana are engaged in child labor. Of those children, about 60% of them ...

an NGO dedicated to combatting slavery, trafficking and abuse. At 8,500 square kilometres, the lake is the world’s largest artificial reservoir. Whereas the Volta waters appear almost impossibly deep, ...

When James Kofi Annan was six years old he was sold into slavery by his parents. He was forced to work punishingly long hours as a child fisherman on Lake Volta, and saw other child slaves drown ...

Adam is just one of 20,000 children on Lake Volta who the International Labour Organization reports are working for slave masters. Most of the children come to the lake from hundreds of miles away.