{"id":630,"date":"2018-11-04T03:30:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T03:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/?p=630"},"modified":"2018-12-17T15:39:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T15:39:33","slug":"never-ghana-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/2018\/11\/04\/never-ghana-forget\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Ghana Forget: Photo \/ Video documentary by Rachel Ledbetter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>November 5 &#8211; 30, 2018<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Service Project: Shai Hills, Ghana, Africa<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Rachel Ledbetter, &#8217;19<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Never Ghana Forget This\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AeXTV_LPJQA?start=15&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Rachel Ledbetter (IHS major and Art minor) volunteered at City of Refuge Ministries (CORM), a non-profit organization based in Ghana in May 2018.\u00a0 The team at CORM is passionate about rescuing children from slavery and providing them with a safe and fulfilling childhood. Ledbetter\u2019s research focuses on the injustices perpetrated on individuals in Africa. Through photography and video, this exhibit documents the people from CORM and their stories.<\/p>\n<p>Read Rachel&#8217;s blog about her experience:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/neverghanaforgetthis.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/neverghanaforgetthis.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-639 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/files\/2018\/11\/CORM4-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/files\/2018\/11\/CORM4-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/files\/2018\/11\/CORM4-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/files\/2018\/11\/CORM4-338x450.jpg 338w, https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/files\/2018\/11\/CORM4.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>History<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lake Volta is a man-made lake in Ghana built in the 1960s to create business opportunities for fishermen. This lake has an abundance of expensive fish to sell and profit from.\u00a0 Fishermen buy children from vulnerable mothers, promising care and education.\u00a0 In reality, the children are not educated, barely fed and forced into dangerous child labor.\u00a0 Many children grow up to be slave masters themselves.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-637 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/files\/2018\/11\/CORM2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/files\/2018\/11\/CORM2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/files\/2018\/11\/CORM2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/files\/2018\/11\/CORM2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/files\/2018\/11\/CORM2-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/files\/2018\/11\/CORM2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Intervention<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2000, The Trafficking Victims Protection Act was passed officially prohibiting all forced labor, involuntary servitude, and sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion.\u00a0 As a result, rescuing children from Lake Volta became a legal process, but unfortunately human trafficking still continues today.\u00a0 Many fishermen do not realize that what they are doing is illegal. \u00a0The government will carry out raids on the lake and rescue hundreds of children at a time. CORM partners with community leaders and International Justice Mission to rescue enslaved children.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-638 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/files\/2018\/11\/CORM3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/files\/2018\/11\/CORM3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/files\/2018\/11\/CORM3-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/files\/2018\/11\/CORM3-338x450.jpg 338w, https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/files\/2018\/11\/CORM3.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prevention<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The key to end human trafficking in the Lake Volta region is to begin with the mothers. The women often lack the necessary skills and income to adequately provide for multiple children forcing them to sell their children in the hopes that they will have a better life.\u00a0 CORM fosters women; teaching them sewing, literacy, cooking, and basic skills all while their children are attending school. After a few years, the women will graduate from this sponsorship program with proper skills, a sewing machine, a small stipend, and thus a business to sustain themselves and their children.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-632 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/files\/2018\/11\/CORM-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/files\/2018\/11\/CORM-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/files\/2018\/11\/CORM-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/files\/2018\/11\/CORM-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/files\/2018\/11\/CORM-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/files\/2018\/11\/CORM.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Restoration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CORM fosters, feeds, and provides Christian based education for children rescued from slavery. There are approximately 70 children currently living in Children\u2019s Village. \u00a0Many of them will begin their education at age 13 since they spent their early childhood working on the lake. \u00a0This year CORM will have their fourth graduating class.\u00a0 Many of these students will continue studying at the university level.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-640 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/files\/2018\/11\/CORM7-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/files\/2018\/11\/CORM7-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/files\/2018\/11\/CORM7-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/files\/2018\/11\/CORM7-338x450.jpg 338w, https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/files\/2018\/11\/CORM7.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to volunteer, or donate to sponsor a child, please visit CORM&#8217;s website at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofrefugeoutreach.org\">https:\/\/www.cityofrefugeoutreach.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 5 &#8211; 30, 2018 Service Project: Shai Hills, Ghana, Africa Rachel Ledbetter, &#8217;19 Rachel Ledbetter (IHS major and Art minor) volunteered at City of Refuge Ministries (CORM), a non-profit organization based in Ghana in May 2018.\u00a0 The team at CORM is passionate about rescuing children from slavery and providing them with a safe and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2018-2019-exhibitions","category-archived_exhibitions","category-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}