7 . Help your church , school , or company become slave-free by using only Fairtrade coffee and supplies .
8 . Inform your local and national government officials about modern-day slavery , and ask them to commit time and resources to help .
9 . Support education for children or anti-slavery campaigns around the world . A few recommendations are : www . worldvision . org , www . savethechildren . org , www . notforsalecampaign . org , and www . freetheslaves . net .
10 . Never give up on trying to make a difference .
A quick internet search will turn up dozens of addresses for various companies in lots of different countries . They are too many to list here . Don ’ t know who to look up ? Flip to the Buying and Boycotting guide at the back of this booklet .
3.2 Interpol intervenes
On the 18 th and 19 th of June , 2009 , Interpol led an operation conducted by Côte d ’ Ivoire police . Nearly 300 Ivorian law enforcement officers took part in the two-day operation , during which eight teams simultaneously targeted a selection of plantations believed to be using illegal child labour . On the main roads leading from Ghana , vehicles were systematically checked for potential victims of the slave trade .
Codenamed BIA after the river which makes up the border of Ghana and Côte d ’ Ivoire , the operation resulted in the rescue of 54 children of seven different nationalities , as well as the arrest of eight people in connection with the child slavery .
The children , having been bought by plantation owners who needed cheap harvesters for the cocoa and palm plantations , were discovered working under extreme conditions , forced to carry massive loads seriously endangering their health and safety . Aged between 11 and 16 , children explained that they were regularly forced to work 12 hours a day . They received neither salary nor education . Girls were usually purchased as house maids and would work a seven-day week all year
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