HOPE EDUCATION PROJECT

Hope Education Project

The Hope Education Project, Ghana The Hope Education Project is a survivor-led anti-trafficking organisation working with schools and communities across Northern Ghana. Our mission is to disrupt trafficking and exploitation by equipping children, young people, and community leaders with practical education on trafficking risks, safe migration, digital safety, and safeguarding practices that protect families and reduce vulnerability.

HEP delivers structured, age-appropriate education in junior high schools and community settings, using stories, role play, discussion, and illustrated learning materials designed for low-literacy environments. The programme focuses on real-world risk, helping young people recognise grooming, false job offers, unsafe migration pathways, and online exploitation. A core element of the work is strengthening trusted-adult networks so children know who to turn to early, before harm occurs.

HEP’s approach is grounded in lived experience and close collaboration with local educators and community leaders. The organisation works alongside partners to complement wider child protection and migration advocacy efforts, linking prevention in Ghana with broader regional work on exploitation and unsafe migration. By keeping the model low-cost, practical, and culturally grounded, HEP is able to reach high-risk communities and scale impact without relying on complex infrastructure.

You can read more about the Hope Education Project human trafficking and digital safety program here.

A young student reads the Hope Education Project Schools handout containing cartoons and stories and word games associated with the Human Trafficking Education Program.

Looking ahead, Hope Education Project plans to adapt and pilot its schools-based prevention model in Uganda, working in partnership with Marriam Mwiza and Overseas Workers Voices Uganda. This pilot will build on Mwiza’s frontline experience supporting trafficked and exploited Ugandan women, particularly those affected by unsafe labour migration to the Middle East. Alongside human trafficking education, the programme will include age-appropriate digital safety training, reflecting the growing role of online grooming, recruitment, and misinformation in exploitation pathways. A light-touch research and learning component will be embedded in the pilot to test, adapt, and improve the programme, ensuring future iterations are evidence-informed, context-specific, and shaped by what works in Ugandan school settings.