@article{1356182,
      recid = {1356182},
      author = {Lanier, Jesse.},
      title = {Under the river exploited children of Ghana / [electronic  resource] :},
      publisher = {Filmakers Library,},
      address = {New York, NY :},
      pages = {1 online resource (52 min.).},
      year = {2009},
      note = {Originally released as DVD.},
      abstract = {In Ghana, children as young as three and as old as sixteen  are often sent away from home to work in bondage for small  payments, desperately needed by impoverished families. Some  are given away by aunts, uncles, grandparents, or by their  own overburdened mothers who will have one less mouth to  feed and the equivalent of $40 (U.S.) each year. Others  send their children away to learn a skill or as a means of  discipline. The parents are often ignorant of the  circumstances their children will face: brutal  back-breaking and dangerous labor, utter deprivation even  to the point of starvation, and exposure to parasites.Under  the River follows one non-governmental organization's  efforts to investigate and rescue trafficked children from  bonded labor and return them to their parents. Many parents  barely recognize their children and wonder how they can  possibly afford to care for additional children. As for the  children, it is apparent at these awkward reunions that  they have little recollection of their families and  friends. It is also apparent that they are in danger of  being re-trafficked. Child trafficking leaves behind a wake  of fractured families and is a tragedy of immense  proportions. As for the NGO and the American family which  sponsored the program, the rescuing of the children isn t  quite the resolution they had hoped for.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1356182},
}