Sold into Slavery: The Boy with the Haunting Eyes (The Little Boy Oprah Couldn't Forget )

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Sold into Slavery: The Boy with the Haunting Eyes (The Little Boy Oprah Couldn't Forget )

Sold into Slavery: The Boy with the Haunting Eyes

In October 2006, Oprah was reading The New York Times when she saw a picture of a 6-year-old child slave named Mark. For months, she was haunted by the look in Mark's eyes, so Oprah decided to send Oprah Show correspondent Lisa Ling on a 7,000-mile journey to Ghana to find him.

When Lisa first got the assignment, she was shocked to learn the statistics about child slavery in the West African country �which is roughly the size of Oregon. It is estimated that one in every four children in Ghana work as child laborers, Lisa says.

http://www2.oprah.com/tows/slide/200702/20070209/slide_20070209_284_101.jhtml

From the show A Special Report: The Little Boy Oprah Couldn't Forget

Where and When is Oprah On: http://www2.oprah.com/tows/program/tows_prog_whenwhere.jhtml

Related thread: Slavery Today - Drissa's Story: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x164628

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Quakerfriend

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Fri Feb-09-07 08:01 PM
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1. I watched most of the show but, never got to see the segment

about this little boy. What happened with him? And, how does the women from Missouri figure in?

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Fri Feb-09-07 08:34 PM
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2. Mark is @ the Village of Hope; Pam raised the money to rescue him & 6 other children...

... after reading the NYT story.

You can read more here: http://www2.oprah.com/tows/slide/200702/20070209/slide_20070209_284_111.jhtml

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Fri Feb-09-07 08:46 PM
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3. *** HOW YOU CAN HELP ***

Adopt a Trafficked Child in Ghana

Key Objectives

This project enables an individual or group of individuals to support a trafficked child in Ghana, one of 587 children rescued by IOM from the fishing villages of Yeji where they were forced to work under hazardous conditions.

For a minimum of USD 20 per month for at least one year, a sponsor could support a specific child based on his or her profile. Such sponsorship would enable IOM and its governmental and non-governmental partners to provide assistance to each selected child on a continuous basis, which would protect the child from being re-trafficked.

For more info & to donate: http://www.iom.int/jahia/page1666.html

{{{{{Click on 'Make a Donation' on the right if you can, and would like to help.}}}}}

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Sat Feb-10-07 01:20 AM
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4. I just did a little bit of math

to support all 587 children for a year requires a total of $140,880. First I was thinking that Oprah, with her net worth of 40 billion, could easily sponsor all of them. Then I figured too that if 20,000 DUers each pitched in $7 that would also support the entire group for a year. Which is really amazing. The hard part, though, is getting 20,000 people to go along.

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