Exhibition: Ghana's Disposable Children By Ian Berry
'Visa For The Image' Perpignan, France. 1st - 16th September 2007

Chapelle Tiers Ordre

In Ghana on Lake Volta children as young as 4 or 5 are sold by their parents to local fishermen. This practice has been going on in the region for centuries. Children are useful to fishermen for their nimble fingers which are used, amongst other things, to unpick nets. After being sold into slavery to the fishermen they receive no education, work long hours and are generally not well treated, living off leftover food from the adults' table