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The road less travelled, Peking to Paris!
We’re rallying behind two intrepid fundraisers for the ALMT and supporting their attempt to drive from Peking to Paris in a 1929 Buick known affectionately as ‘Benson’.
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An ALMT supporter is climbing to new heights for the trust, Kilimanjaro no less!
Help our ALMT supporters achieve new heights in fundraising for the ALMT by attempting to climb the highest mountain in Africa. Deutsche bank employees Nadia Corsini and her friend Denise Brown will be climbing Kilimanjaro in a couple of weeks to raise money for our projects, please support them here.
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Job opportunity with the ALMT
The ALMT is looking to hire an enthusiastic self starter as a fundraiser and administrative assistant. Please find attached the job description and person specification, cv's and covering letters to be sent to Head of Programmes debbie.gore@almt.org by 2pm Wednesday 18th August.
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Project Sunlight to end illegal child labour (Ghana) May 2009



Due to the credit crisis a major sponsor has had to put away from one of Afrikids most crucial projects - combating the problem of illegal child labour in the small scale Galamsey gold mines of the Talensi Nabdam District in northern Ghana. We are proud to donate £10,000 to establish the Angus Sunlight Project to remove children from illegal sale labour.

The district is rural and poor with no urban centre and very little infrastructure. Mining communities are not recognised as permanent settlements so the government is not obliged to provide them with schools, clinics, power or water. The gold deposits in the district are not enough to attract investment from the major mining companies down south, but the illegal shafts, dug over 80m deep into the ground produce enough to enrich a few local mine owners and are a magnet for the poor, the desperate and the orphaned of the region.

Children are cheap labour and are in the mines because they need to support themselves and their families. This destructive convergence of circumstances has meant the growth of child labour was inevitable, but the Angus Sunlight project will hopefully prove that it need not be intractable. We will finish a project began as part of the International Labour Organisation’s International Programme for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour, and in its first two year phase it achieved the following.

 -155 children from illegal labour in gold mines removed and integrated into school and vocational training

-Child rights clubs established in eight communities with a membership of over 475

-Community child rights committees in ten communities, public recognition by mine owners that child labour should end

-Micro finance and goats for rearing provided to all 155 families

-National Health Insurance provided to all 155 families

-Ghana Education Service successfully lobbied to build a school a new school in a mining community

-Recognised by the International Labour Organisation as the example of best practice for child labour programmes in Ghana

The project is now moving into a new phase and its priorities for the second half of 2009 are to support the children who have left mining to complete and graduate from their vocational training programmes.

Sad pictures of Young Miners  are also alongside those of the Child Rights Club showing the importance of this project.



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