Breaking the Chain Through Education
Rescuing and Educating Trafficked Children
Fast Facts
Ghana
Mike Fitzgerald
2022-23, 2024, 2025
Education
How Breaking The Chain Through Education (BTCTE) Is Making a Difference
BTCTE rescues trafficked children and provides education, vocational training, and related services, including room and board, supplies, clothing and uniforms, transportation, and medicine for children rescued from servitude.
BTCTE partners with a local team to assess needs, help to problem solve, offer practical guidance, and bring hope and encouragement to rescued children. Financial stability and entrepreneurship are included in an apprenticeship program that provides structured job and career training for students who are 18 years of age or older and who choose to pursue trades.
Work of BTCTE
- Supports and maintains a village school and residence built by BTCTE for rescued children.
- Supports and continues to expand the education program created by BTCTE to serve these children.
- Employs a social worker to check on the children’s welfare periodically.
- Supports an apprenticeship program for the older children created by BTCTE to provide vocational training for the residence’s children and local villagers.
Initiatives Supported by Project Redwood
2022-23: $30,000 to help fund the BTCTE campus Residential and Education Center.
2024: $40,000 to help complete the construction of the campus and expand the education program.
2025: $30,000 Impact Grant to support a larger number of students and strengthens BTCTE’s sources of funding, its Board, and its succession planning.