The Night They Came for Our Children - BBC Africa Eye documentary

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Could anti-slavery efforts in Ghana be doing more harm than good to local communities? #BBCAfricaEye goes undercover to investigate one of the world’s leading anti-slavery organisations and their West African operations.
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On 6 September 2022, in northern Ghana, four children were taken, at gunpoint, from their home in the middle of the night.
They were brought to a hotel, photographed, washed and fed. At sunrise, they were relocated to a shelter. Their families were left in the dark as to where and why.
For the American charity coordinating the raid, it was a successful mission to rescue child slaves.
For the families, it felt like a kidnapping leaving them bewildered and traumatised.
What really happened to these children?
With a trail of WhatsApp messages, secret filming, and a journey to some of the remotest areas of Ghana, Africa Eye brings you the story of what happens when good intentions go horribly wrong.
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Credits:
Reporters - Kyenkyenhene Boateng, Yahaya Masahudu
Filmed, Produced and Directed by Chiara Francavilla
BBC Africa Eye Editor - Tom Watson
Executive Producers - Andy Bell, Michael Simkin
Investigative Producers - Kwakye Afreh-Nuamah, Aliaume Leroy, Max Hudson
Open-Source Analysis - Bertram Hill
Film Editor - Rob Miller
Director of Photography - Kevin Okai
Production Manager - Simon Frost
Reversioning Producer - Anna Payton
Digital Producer - Tamasin Ford
Social Media Producer - Anusha Kumar
Impact Producer - Blanca Munoz
Production Coordinator - Sarah Clarke
Online Editor - Chris Stott
Dubbing Mixer - Jez Spencer
Colour Grader - Boyd Nagle
Translators - Shaniece Palm, Nasiba Mbabe Bawa, Taufique Chentiba Ahmed, Ofosua Owusu
Motion Graphics Designer - Manuella Bonomi
Additional camera - Alex Tackie
Production Support - Abigail Knight
Digital Technicians - David Smith, Regan Wharton
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@BBCAfrica

Read more about this investigation here ➡"Ghanaian children taken from home over false trafficking claims"

@Kezia-rashford

Africans unite it's our time to shine

@x__g3482

Why does an American company have so much access to a sovereign nation to determine who our law enforcement should go after. This is legalized kidnapping and an atrocity. No company in Ghana or Africa period would be given this much access to any western country. We need to do more for the children.

@RoseSchwinn

If all of the said "charity organizations" are investigated you will all be shocked. I worked for an international humanitarian organisation and everything I found out after 7 years of working there was so disgusting I could no longer stay for the money; I quit the job to no job. After one year outside of the box, I went to work for global corporate, then I realized how this firm was funding the said charity organizations and involved in modern day slavery. I quit for good working for these global firms where you have no clue what harm you are really supporting. Now I either work for myself or for small businesses where I'm working hand to hand with the owner.

@FreshtexBlackman

Why don't IJM help these poor families instead of taking their children to satisfy their wild child rescue fantasies?

@JMartin7865

As a Kenyan 🇰🇪living in the US 🇺🇲 these foreign "ministries/missionaries" need to fully understand the way Africans operate... Just because a child is helping their family in what the West considers work does not mean it's child labor! Stop using our people to line your pockets😡🤬

@NellyMacharia

So its more of a racketeering thing, right? So IJM accuses some innocent Ghanaians of child trafficking and remove their children from their care. The poor Ghanaian is jailed for the crime. Then after a few years in prison, the other charity swoops in pretending to be the saviour of the poor Ghanaian who has been imprisoned unfairly. Ijm uses the story to fund-raise for their charity claiming they rescued children from slavery. The other charity uses the same story to also fund raise claiming they rescued a poor Ghanaian from an unjustified incarceration. Thats criminal!!! Meaning both charities are running a scam and playing with people's lives.

@dalmarcadde1507

Ghana should ban these NGO period.

@mbirbaamuasi

American saviour mentality meets proverbial "Ghanaian hospitality."

@lavernehendrix5268

This sounds like an echo of what has happened to the indigenous peoples of Canada, the United States of America and Australia where "good Christians" are "rescuing" children. How long before we are searching for the unmarked graves of the children who never leave the "shelters"?

@DNCAGE

A British once said: "IF YOU WANT TO STEAL LAND FROM A FARMER, DO NOT TAKE THE LAND FROM HIM BECAUSE HE WILL FIGHT YOU OR HIS CHILDREN OF GRANDCHILDREN TILL THEY GET THEIR LAND BACK!!! If you want to steal land from a farmer, take his children to school, when the farmer dies the children will sell you the land cheap."

@tendayiification

From history, we know that we should never trust missionaries, i wonder why we still get shocked when they do such things. Thank you to this channel for always exposing these criminal acts

@_pindi_

All Ghanaians should unite and stop this organization stigmatizing innocent people under false representation.

@juliaherbet2063

I'm now 50 years old and I was raised by my grandparents not because I didn't have my parents but it's our Africa culture. We grew up with cousins and nephews together and up to today we have a very strong bond. White people don't have that fabric so they shouldn't come to Africa and tell the people how to raise their children

@teddydavis2339

Turning a blind in Africa has brought so much pain and suffering to its people. It's time to wake up and to ensure that black people are not slaves forever.

@jacdez3520

I’m sorry but don’t most young children in the villages work hard physically. That’s not trafficking.

@NellyMacharia

How do we expect people who used Christianity to justify slavery in the USA to be at the forefront of fighting modern day slavery? I can't believe that charity's mission.

@sonsy040

It's crazy how IGM isn't assisting with crack down on child trafficking in the US, but all of a sudden is claiming to be the savior Ghana needs. More disheartening is how they are making money off family seperation 😢

@masehoart7569

This is the 1st BBC African documentary, I approve of wholeheartedly. My utmost respect to this incredible sharp & empathic journalist.

@jayjamal3912

Such a sad documentary when people still use indigenous that are suffering as an excuse for filling their pockets. Money is the root of all evil and people using Church and GOD as an excuse is like shoving a double edge sword to the already poor and vulnerable.. I pray for Africa everyday because of how colonialism has screwed it up and now watching how outsiders are still trying to rip them off after decades of suffering... GOD BLESS OUT MOTHERLAND. 💔💔💔