Mother of baby stolen by two social welfare officials yet to re-unite with child

The mother of a stolen baby in Kumasi will have to wait a while longer to reunite with the child.

It’s been three weeks since police retrieved the unidentified woman’s four-month-old baby from foster parents to whom social workers had sold her in the Central Region.

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2 Social Welfare officers arrested for stealing and selling baby

The suspects have been identified as Evelyn Jemima Alangeah and Samuel Obeng Afriyie, the former a Probation Officer and the latter a Justice Administration Officer.

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Six illegal orphanages closed down in B/A

The Department of Social Development in the Brong Ahafo Region has threatened to close down more children’s homes in the near feature.

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‘Let’s protect rights of orphans, foster children’

‘Let’s protect rights of orphans, foster children’

The Children’s Act Act, 1998 (Act 560) envisages a situation where children will find themselves in a condition where temporary homes will be the option for their maintenance and rehabilitation.

Bawjiase Orphanage Home Children Used As Sex Objects

Bawjiase Orphanage Home Children Used As Sex Objects

Child cruelty is only entrenched due to society’s apathy. However, the plight of children is not so serene in Ghana….talk of orphans! Orphans are most often subjected to unspeakable cruelty and unconscionable exploitation in this country. Most of the cruelty takes place in established and recognized orphanage homes.

Government bans adoptions

Government bans adoptions

The government has placed a temporary ban on adoption in the country in order to allow time for investigations and reform of current adoption procedures.

Adopted Ghanaian Girl May Get to Stay in U.S.

Adopted Ghanaian Girl May Get to Stay in U.S.

U.S. immigration officials improperly ordered the deportation of a Ghanaian immigrant whose age of adoption here toed the cutoff, the 9th Circuit ruled.

Ghana: Agony of 143 Orphan Children

Ghana: Agony of 143 Orphan Children

ANOTHER ORPHANAGE perceived to be the largest in the whole of the Northern Region has emerged in Savelugu, with a total number of 145 orphans.

California couple jailed in Ghana and their biological children taken after they tried to board plane with four African children they wanted to adopt

California couple jailed in Ghana and their biological children taken after they tried to board plane with four African children they wanted to adopt


A couple from California, who wrote a popular blog about their journey to adopt four children from Ghana, was detained by Ghanaian authorities on suspicion of child trafficking as they tried to take the youngsters back to the U.S.

U.S. couple detained in Ghana for trying to adopt

U.S. couple detained in Ghana for trying to adopt

An American couple, who used their popular blog to chronicle their journey to adopt four children from Ghana, was detained by Ghanaian authorities and forced to spend a night in detention as they tried to take the children back to the U.S., according to officials.

Ghana: Illegal Orphanages Spring Up in V/R - Dept. of Social Welfare Threatens Closure

Ghana: Illegal Orphanages Spring Up in V/R - Dept. of Social Welfare Threatens Closure

The Volta Region branch of the Department of Social Welfare has intensified its activities to ensure that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating in areas of child care and protection possess the relevant licenses.

Amend Foster Care Regulations to Protect Male Children

Amend Foster Care Regulations to Protect Male Children

The recent rise in the number of abuse cases involving young boys raises the stakes for a review of the foster care rules and regulations, which seems to have loop holes that put boys at risk.


Foster Care Regulations To Protect Ghanaian Children

Child welfare institutions unable to support child’s rights-Child Rights Worker

Child welfare institutions unable to support child’s rights-Child Rights Worker

A child rights advocte on Monday expressed worry over the nation’s inability to grow its child-welfare administrative institutions in tandem with the child protections laws and recommendations.

Ghana to send 'witches' banished to refugee camps back home

Ghana to send 'witches' banished to refugee camps back home

A report by Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), says about 1,000 women and 700 children are living in "witches" camps in northern Ghana where they were forced to take refuge after their communities accused them of "witchcraft."

Deformed children are being killed in Ghana

Deformed children are being killed in Ghana

Three-year old John the Baptist, who hails from Gnani, a community in the Yendi Municipality of the Northern Region, was born with a vein defect.

94 per cent of Ghanaian parents endorse corporal punishment-Survey

94 per cent of Ghanaian parents endorse corporal punishment-Survey

A survey conducted in four districts of the country by the Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED), a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) indicates that 94 per cent of Ghanaian parents endorse corporal punishment as a means of correcting misbehaving students.

Bridging the Gap: Child Welfare and Protection in Africa

Bridging the Gap: Child Welfare and Protection in Africa

Bridging the Gap: Child Welfare and Protection in Africa, its Challenges and Failures as Compared to Child Protection and Welfare in Ontario Canada

Institutional care for orphans must be discouraged – Adongo

Institutional care for orphans must be discouraged – Adongo

Mr Stephen Adongo, Director of Social Welfare, has underlined the need to give priority to family-based care for orphans and vulnerable children and de-emphasize institutional care.

Lack of funds frustrates child protection efforts

Lack of funds frustrates child protection efforts

The Multi-Sectoral Committee on Child Protection in the Volta Region, on Thursday asked the Government to provide funds for the fight against child abuse, to give meaning to the enactment of the Children’s Act.

Institutionalising children in orphanages is bad – Social Welfare Department

Institutionalising children in orphanages is bad – Social Welfare Department

The Department of Social Welfare (DSW) has noted that confining children who are in need of care and protection at orphanages was bad and affected their psychological and physical development.