June - July 2006 | Burkina Faso, Africa
ChildRight helps Child Slaves into freedom | Learn more about Burkina Faso here

Burkina Faso, formerly French Upper and Lower Volta, is a sub Saharan country in West Africa, south of Mali and north of Ivory Coast and Ghana, about the same size as Germany.

Jacob Gelt Dekker, Chairman of Childright, the Nobel Prize Winners' charity for children, has returned from a tour of the organization's Care Center in Ouagadougou designed to provide safe haven to children in Burkina Faso who have been bought back from the slave trade. The Center has been in operation for a year, and presently houses 52 boys and girls, providing temporary shelter and vocational training.

Jacob in Ouadougou with boys that Childright has recently bought back from slavery.

Raymond Chevalier, the Director of Childright, who helped make it all happen.



Jacob pictured with some of the boys Childright recently bought back from slavery in the cacao plantations of Ivory Coast, an ordeal that will likely leave them with long-term emotional scars

Links of Children in Burkina Faso & Ivory Coast