Ghana: Curbing Child Migrant Flows to Capital

Accra — On a hot afternoon in Malam Ata market in the centre of Accra, capital of Ghana, when eight-year-olds should be in a classroom learning, or playing with friends, Berikisu is trading her education and health for cash.

All day long she carries food to customers in a metal pan balanced on her head, which causes her a persistent pain in her neck and back; sometimes the pan falls to the ground. "I have a headache and I want my mother to buy me some medicine. I always have pains in my chest. I have never been to the hospital," she told IRIN.

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