Challenging Heights Calls on the Education Minister to Release Capitation...
To The Press for Immediate Release: 8th September 2015 Challenging Heights condemns the current trend of delay and irregularity in the release of capitation grants to public schools in Ghana. We are...
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Continuous vigilance needed to prevent child trafficking
Press Release: 20th September 2015 Children are routinely trafficked on public transport in Ghana, which is why all trotro buses must be checked at every checkpoint Today, 20th September 2015, through...
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Violence Against Children Endangers Development in Ghana
Schools should be a place of joy and safety – not fear and violence. Press Release: 2nd October 2015 As we commemorate the International Day for Non-Violence, Challenging Heights is calling on schools...
View ArticleChallenging Heights position on the National Plan of Action for the...
For Immediate Release – The Overall goal of the NPA is stated as: “The main objective of this National Plan of Action (Framework) is to reduce the worst forms of child labour to the barest minimum by...
View ArticleHundreds of children call on local Assembly to protect their Child Rights
For Immediate Release – Challenging Heights in partnership with the Canadian High Commission today supported hundreds of children in Senya Beraku in demanding their child rights be secured and...
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CH Development Partners work to help stop child trafficking in Ghana
An overwhelming number of children in Accra Town, an island community close toYeji in the Brong-Ahafo Region are not enrolled in school or getting proper education amid persistent child labour in the...
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DCE Prevents Child Labour Rescue in Awutu-Senya
For Immediate Release 31 March, 2016 Challenging Heights is disappointed in the conduct of the District Chief Executive of Awutu-Senya, Mr. Samson Abbey-Armah, who in a classical show of power has...
View ArticleChallenging Heights calls for government action to address human trafficking
Challenging Heights has stated that it is disappointed in the Government for still failing to address the issue of Human Trafficking in Ghana. Ghana has for the second consecutive year been classified...
View ArticleNGO supports police to rescue five children from slavery
Five child slaves in Fantekope, an island community along the Lake Volta in the Kpando District have been rescued from slavery by Anti-Human Trafficking NGO, Challenging Heights. The rescue mission,...
View ArticleChallenging Heights calls on the government to #StopSlaveryGhana
The recent release of the U.S. State Department’s 2016 Trafficking in Persons Report has shown that Ghana’s government’s response to and efforts to end human trafficking do not go far enough. According...
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Challenging Heights shares Children’s Reintegration Guidelines in Ghana
As a part of the launch of the Children’s Reintegration Guidelines from Family for Every Child, Challenging Heights called together policy makers and influencers from across various sectors to present...
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Students from Castle View High School spruce up shelter
Earlier this year, the students of Castle View High School in Castle View, Colorado choose Challenging Heights as the recipient of their annual Make a Difference Week fundraising campaign. In just a...
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Challenging Heights is AGI’s Social Enterprise of the Year
James Kofi Annan, the President of Challenging Heights, displaying the AGI overall Social Enterprise award Challenging Heights has received the Best Social Enterprise award at the 5th edition of the...
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James Kofi Annan addresses U.N. to mark #EndSlavery day
Each year, December 2 marks the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. This year, James Kofi Annan, the president and founder of Challenging Heights was invited to participate in a panel...
View ArticleChallenging Heights set to end child trafficking in 5 years
We at Challenging Heights have reached a crucial point in our history. For the past 12 years we have spread our efforts among a variety of programmes, all with the goal of making an impact on child...
View ArticleChallenging Heights rescues 17 more children from Lake Volta
Challenging Heights, in partnership with Abolish Slavery Now, an Abolitionist organization based out of Ventura, California, rescued 17 more trafficked children from the Lake Volta. The 4 girls and 13...
View ArticleGhana’s government joins effort to end trafficking in 5 years
We at Challenging Heights spent much of last year assessing the state of trafficking in Ghana and thinking big. This lead to our new strategic plan, launched at the beginning of the year, with the goal...
View ArticleChallenging Heights releases 2016 Annual Report
Last year was an important year for us at Challenging Heights. We took a hard look at what services we provide, what services we want to provide and what goals we aim to achieve through those services....
View ArticleWith an unexpected reprieve, Challenging Heights calls for greater cooperation
Challenging Heights is pleased to note that Ghana has maintained, against all odds, Tier 2 Watch List standing on the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report from the US State Department. This is an...
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Challenging Heights Marks Blue Day in Senya Bereku
Challenging Heights, along with the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, commemorated World Day Against Trafficking in Persons on July 30 with a community sensitisation event in Senya...
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