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What happened
With a monthly income of GH¢150 in Ghana, a bread baker’s dream of earning more money in Russia as a nanny turned sour when she found herself lured into prostitution. Desperate to travel, she abandoned baking and was trafficked. On her arrival in Russia, where she thought she would be working as a nanny, she was housed with some Ghanaians and Nigerians for two weeks after which her passport was seized and she was given a cell phone, taxi fare, and an address at where she was to start work. It was not until she arrived at the address that she found out that she was to work as a prostitute, and had to on the spot sexually satisfy three men. Mr Eric Peasah, Counter-Trafficking Field Manager of the International Organisation of Migration narrated the ordeal of the bread baker at a media forum on human trafficking in Accra.
Response and intervention
The victim was able to contact the Ghana Consulate in Russia which rescued her the next day. More information: http://cegensa.ug.edu.gh/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=88&Itemid=114 Rescued by Ghana Consulate in Russia