An Advocacy Forum has been held for opinion leaders and churches by the Christian Council of Ghana at New Ningo in the Dangme West District. They have called on parents to help curb the incidence of child trafficking in the district. Miss Joyce Larko Steiner, Senior Programme Officer who made the call reminded parents that their children faced difficult situations if they are left at the mercy of the child traffickers. She urged chiefs and other opinion leaders to educate their people about the menace at funerals, festivals and other festive occasions. Miss Steiner appealed to the various communities within the district to form watchdog committees and help fight against child trafficking and that they may be provided with any information they may need to sustain the programme. Mr Eric Peasah, an employee of the International Migration for Organisation and a Resource Person at the forum, took the participants and the rescued children through the sufferings of trafficked children. Mr Peasah explained that trafficked children slept late in the night, ate once a day, wake up at dawn and did not attend school. He urged parents in the district to help fight child trafficking, since the area was the worst affected in the country. Some of the rescued children drawn from Lala, Kpando, Mangoase, Akateng and Yeji in an interview said sometimes they did not eat for two days. Among those present at the function were Nene Teye Djangmah IIII, Chief of New Ningo, Farmers and Fishermen Associations in the area. Source: GNA