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We for example picked Kwaku up from the police station, last month. He is 11 years old and was selling on the street. The Social Welfare is now busy with his case. They try to find out if he has family that is able to take care of him. In the end, they will be the ones deciding if Kwaku can stay in Hanukkah. He himself seems to be enjoying his life here. He is a bright boy and likes the other children very much.
Last week, we took Aishetu from the police station. She is 11 years old and is originally from Burkina Faso. She has been living in Ghana for two years, to learn trade with her family. That is why she does speak Twi but she cannot understand English. She was taken to Hanukkah because the aunt she was staying with beated her continuously. She has more family in Ghana and the Social Welfare is now investigating if she can stay with another aunt or uncle or that it would maybe be better for her to go back to Burkina Faso.
Luckily we also encounter cases with very caring families and happy children: That same week, the police called to say that we should pick up a boy of about 10, 12 years. When we came there, we found out that he couldn’t talk. We presumed he was deaf. For that reason we didn’t know his name and we were not even sure if he was a boy or a girl. That night already, his parents called. They said they had lost him and had been searching for him all night. The next morning they picked him. Of course, we were not able to find out from the conversation, the night before, if the people on the phone were his real parents. However, when they came to Hanukkah, anyone could see from the boy’s reaction that this were his parents. They told us he was called Nana and was not deaf but could not talk anymore as a result of malaria. Nana was now mentally disabled. Nevertheless, he was very happy and naughty because he had climbed on a truck and that was how he got missing. The truckdriver had brought him to the police station. Two days later he was brought to the police station again, but this time we could trace his parents easily.
A few days later, we found ourselves at the police station again. A girl from Techiman, a town one hour away from Sunyani, was brought in. She told us her parents had died. She said she came to Sunyani together with her sister, but the sister had left her. However, anytime we went to check the story somewhere, the girl came up with other stories. At some point, the Social Welfare asked her what school she was attending in Techiman. She mentioned a school in Techiman that didn’t even exist. Today we learned that her parents are alive and that she comes from a considerably wealthy family in Techiman. It is hard to imagine why a girl that comes from what seems like a good and caring family decides to abandon it. That is why the Social Welfare decided that she will go back to where she came from.
08-04-2010 - Kwaku, Aisha, Nana and Yamama
Not all the children that are admitted in Hanukkah stay for good. Now and then there are those who stay only for the night or for a couple of nights. In the past few weeks a lot of new children have come. Up until now we are not sure if all of them will stay but to give an idea about the daily life in Hanukkah, we also tell their stories.We for example picked Kwaku up from the police station, last month. He is 11 years old and was selling on the street. The Social Welfare is now busy with his case. They try to find out if he has family that is able to take care of him. In the end, they will be the ones deciding if Kwaku can stay in Hanukkah. He himself seems to be enjoying his life here. He is a bright boy and likes the other children very much.
Last week, we took Aishetu from the police station. She is 11 years old and is originally from Burkina Faso. She has been living in Ghana for two years, to learn trade with her family. That is why she does speak Twi but she cannot understand English. She was taken to Hanukkah because the aunt she was staying with beated her continuously. She has more family in Ghana and the Social Welfare is now investigating if she can stay with another aunt or uncle or that it would maybe be better for her to go back to Burkina Faso.
Luckily we also encounter cases with very caring families and happy children: That same week, the police called to say that we should pick up a boy of about 10, 12 years. When we came there, we found out that he couldn’t talk. We presumed he was deaf. For that reason we didn’t know his name and we were not even sure if he was a boy or a girl. That night already, his parents called. They said they had lost him and had been searching for him all night. The next morning they picked him. Of course, we were not able to find out from the conversation, the night before, if the people on the phone were his real parents. However, when they came to Hanukkah, anyone could see from the boy’s reaction that this were his parents. They told us he was called Nana and was not deaf but could not talk anymore as a result of malaria. Nana was now mentally disabled. Nevertheless, he was very happy and naughty because he had climbed on a truck and that was how he got missing. The truckdriver had brought him to the police station. Two days later he was brought to the police station again, but this time we could trace his parents easily.
A few days later, we found ourselves at the police station again. A girl from Techiman, a town one hour away from Sunyani, was brought in. She told us her parents had died. She said she came to Sunyani together with her sister, but the sister had left her. However, anytime we went to check the story somewhere, the girl came up with other stories. At some point, the Social Welfare asked her what school she was attending in Techiman. She mentioned a school in Techiman that didn’t even exist. Today we learned that her parents are alive and that she comes from a considerably wealthy family in Techiman. It is hard to imagine why a girl that comes from what seems like a good and caring family decides to abandon it. That is why the Social Welfare decided that she will go back to where she came from.
