Last month, the Ghana Police Service launched a pilot unit that will begin patrolling the lake by boat, proactively investigating active cases of human trafficking in the fishing industry.

At the end of June, IJM's trained partner organisation, CARITAS, and the Department of Social Welfare and the police rescued three children suspected of being exploited in fishing and farming along the shores of Lake Volta. This is the first rescue by an IJM-trained NGO partner in Ghana.

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During May's lockdown, IJM and partners conducted an operation to rescue three children, two boys and one girl, who had been trafficked into the fishing industry, which is notorious for the trafficking of children to work on Ghana's Lake Volta. IJM continues its preventative, protective and restorative work to ensure children are safe and traffickers are held to account.