Ghana: What hope for thousands of street children?

More than 80 percent of under-sixteen’s working the streets in Ghana left home because of family problems, such as neglect or parents' separation, according to Catholic Action for Street Children (CAS), an NGO based in Accra. Other causes cited by CAS are the collapse of rural livelihoods as traditional industries like fishing go into decline, lack of jobs, poor schools outside the cities, and forced marriage.