Poverty is an Acute Cause of Child Trafficking

A family of seven including the man ,his wife and five children are living in a room apartment in one of the slumps in sub sahara Africa. The man is a farmer while the wife is a roadside fruit seller,because of their level of... [ view full abstract ]

A family of seven including the man ,his wife and five children are living in a room apartment in one of the slumps in sub sahara Africa. The man is a farmer while the wife is a roadside fruit seller,because of their level of poverty non of the five children is attending school rather hawking fruits in the street and motorway. One day a social worker ,a volunteer of AAPECA INT'L an NGO working in the rural areas of Africa in his investigation to check effect of poverty and its visible violence against children, decided to visit the farmer pretending to be a child trafficker and offered him a reasonable sum of money and ask him to give(the social worker) three of his children to send them to city where they will learn trade and go to school, without hesitation the farmer & his wife agreed.Investigation of this manner have shown that 80 out of 100 families living under poverty are willing or do willingly give in their children into the unsafe hands of strangers/traffickers and expose their children to visible violence.In view of this it is clear that poverty and its cause has negatively affected children and has been the major factor contributing to high level child trafficking in underdeveloped countries especially in Africa.