The term “Porta-Potty” has a hidden and disturbing meaning beyond portable toilets. In the context of sexual exploitation, it refers to women and girls being dehumanized and abused in exchange for money, often linked to trafficking and power imbalances. This article exposes how the term is used, the harm it causes, and why greater awareness is urgently needed.
Beyond “Sex for Fish”: The Male Accountability Crisis in Ghana’s Trafficking Networks Triggered by new research, a disturbing video investigation published this week reveals how male-dominated systems perpetuate child sexual exploitation whilst trafficked girls remain trapped in cycles of re-victimisation. In the shadow of Cape Coast Castle, where centuries of human trafficking began, a …
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Cyber Scamming: The Rise of Industrial-Scale Operations and Human Trafficking Cyber scamming operations have evolved from individual criminal activities into sophisticated, industrial-scale enterprises generating tens of billions of dollars annually. Research from the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime (GIATOC) reveals how these networks, primarily based in Southeast Asia, have become what experts describe as …
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From Tamale to Madrid: How Global Digital Culture is Grooming Girls into Sexual Economies A recent Spanish study on adolescents’ perceptions of OnlyFans reveals troubling parallels with our findings from Tamale, Northern Ghana. Despite their contrasting contexts – digitally connected Spanish teens and Ghanaian adolescents with limited access – the study and our observations in …
My Lens – I am still here – Photography Exhibition Survivors of modern slavery are taking back control of their stories in a moving new online photography exhibition, ‘My Lens – I am still here’, launching today. This unique collection of photographs gives a powerful insight into the lives and perspectives of people who have …
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Community Celebration at Darul Haddis Following strong community interest generated by our school and community sessions, the Hope Education Project hosted a final public event as part of the pilot on Saturday, 22 March 2025, in New Gbolo. The event turned into a celebration of everything we have achieved in the schools and community programs …
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Hope Education Project: Out-of-School Girls Community Program Alongside the Schools Program pilot, the Hope Education Project delivered a targeted three-session program for out-of-school girls and young women in the communities surrounding St. Paul’s JHS (Gumbihini), Bagabaga Annex JHS (Sagnarigu), and Darul Haddis JHS (New Gbolo) in Tamale, Northern Ghana. This initiative responded to the urgent …
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Hope Education Project: Final Handouts for Students At the end of our five-module anti-trafficking education journey, each student received a printed handout to take home, a simple but powerful resource designed to reinforce the key messages from the Hope Education Project schools program. The handouts feature illustrated summaries, crosswords, games, and culturally relevant cartoons, all …
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Hope Education Project: Module 5 Delivery Update – Theatre-Based Trafficking Education This week marked the delivery of Module 5 in the Hope Education Project pilot – a vibrant and emotional culmination of everything the students have learned. In this final session, students performed the plays they created in Module 4, sharing their work with peers, …
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Hope Education Project: Module 4 Delivery Update This week, we introduced students to Module 4 of our human trafficking education pilot: a powerful shift from classroom learning to creating and learning on their feet. The focus of this module was participatory theatre, giving students the opportunity to co-create short plays in Dagbani based on trafficking …
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Hope Education Project: Module 3 Delivery Update In the third week of our human trafficking education pilot program for Ghana, we shifted focus to the digital world with the delivery of Module 3: “Online Safety, Online Trafficking, and Reporting” across our three partner schools in Tamale: St Paul’s JHS (Gumbihini), Bagabaga Annex JHS (Sagnarigu), and …
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Hope Education Project: Module 2 Delivery Update Following the successful launch of our human trafficking education pilot in Ghana with the delivery of Module 1 last week, we continued this week with the delivery of Module 2: “Traffickers, Victims, and Staying Safe” across our three partner schools in Tamale: St Paul’s JHS (Gumbihini), Bagabaga Annex …
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