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Our Sport for Change sporting activity is a regular football Tournament sponsored by Challenging Heights which aims at sensitization and awareness raising about health, environmental issues, climate change, social issues that lead to trafficking, and promoting child rights. This initiative focuses on regular sensitization of players, spectators, and supporters on the need to protect children and all that concerns their well-being. Our research team also uses this tournament as an avenue for data collection for research works in the organization.

One main objective of this particular tournament held today is to help educate the masses about Drug Abuse and its detrimental effects on individuals who engage in it and the society at large. As drug abuse is an effect of child trafficking and modern-day slavery, we used this opportunity as a platform to advocate and create awareness about it. We educated spectators and players about the long-term impact of abusing drugs on children, the youth, and the country. 

We also encouraged them to be carriers of this message to their families, friends, and neighbors as there have been instances where children rescued by us could not abstain from drugs until after rescue and rehabilitation. These children who were drug addicts were all trafficked at tender ages by traffickers. During the program, we challenged the audience with a crucial question: “How can we get great future leaders when most of our young men, women, girls, and boys are addicted to drugs “? We pointed out how this act hinders the youth from progressing hence affecting the socioeconomic development of our societies. We admonished them to educate themselves and others who haven’t been trafficked yet are doing drugs to seek professional assistance to help them abstain from drugs. This way, our aim of protecting children against all forms of abuse and its effects will be achieved. 

At Challenging Heights, we strive to protect children and the vulnerable against anything that affects their rights hence the need for such programs. So far, our sensitization programs on issues of Drug Abuse have been a great success and we hope to organize more of such programs to educate the public. We urge all and sundry to join us in making Ghana a country in which child trafficking is a thing of the past!