This week we continued our work to support children's rights around the world, in particular those children who carry out dangerous work on cocoa farms in Ghana. We all wrote a letter to the president of Ghana, to persuade him to change the law or change the way the law is carried out, so that no Ghanaian children carry out dangerous work and all can go to primary school. We thought hard about how to word our letters politely and persuasively using the facts that we have found out. Here is a combination of some excerpts from our letters:

Dear President Akuyo-Addo,

Let me take this opportunity to wish you and your family a prosperous New Year...You have made great changes to children's lives in Ghana, so I wanted to ask you if you can help change this... I would love for all children to have the same opportunities I do... I know you have limitations and your time is very valuable... Sir, as Ghana is in the United Nations, its children should have their rights respected, including the right to an education and to be protected from harmful work.... Here is my idea: maybe instead of children doing dangerous work on cocoa farms, those families who need money could have a voucher which they could use to buy food. This would mean that the children could go to school instead of doing dangerous work... ...You could be known as the president who ended dangerous child labour.

Me da uo ase,

The children of Kingsway Junior School