Lake Volta — A recent report by UNICEF and the International Labour Organization found that the number of children who are working around the world has risen for the first time in two decades. The ...

Lake Volta, Ghana — The sunset over Lake Volta masks the sinister depths below. Rickety vessels are filled with young boys, trapped — like the fish they catch — and forced to dive deep to free ...

Editor’s Note: Dominika Kulczyk is founder and president of the Kulczyk Foundation which works with local NGOs to support aid projects in countries affected by poverty. The opinions expressed in this ...

A satellite mapping company is hoping to focus the power of web-surfing couch potatoes around the world on the cruel African warlords who traffic in child slaves. Tomnod, the project run by ...

How the largest man-made lake became a place to untangle the bonds of slavery. Anita Budu stepped to the water’s edge and searched the horizon. Lake Volta is the most expansive artificial reservoir in ...

Sold by their parents, around 20,000 children work on the lake, enslaved by the fishermen they call “master.” Dawn breaks over the water. Adam leads a column of five other boys through the high, ...

Water hyacinth is rapidly spreading across southern Ghana's Lake Volta, severely impacting fishing, depleting fish stocks, and threatening local livelihoods. The water hyacinth, a free-floating ...

Have you ever visited a place so all-consuming that leaving feels like a small heartbreak? A place where time slows, worries dissolve and every moment feels like a dream? For many, Platinum Blue ...