Project Ghana:
Project Ghana is a fundraising campaign started by then 10 year-old Tyler Page after watching an episode of Oprah where he learned that children, just like himself, were being sold by their own parents into fishing labor.

Positive Action at Work:
Tyler organized a Community Carwash that Raised $1,175.00.
Picturing himself in their shoes is all it took for him to leap into
action. Two weeks later he launched his first carwash at his school
with nearly 30 other children and together they raised $1,175.00.
He immediately wanted to know how many children that amount
would allow him to save. When he found out that it was enough
for 4.7 children, he literally jumped up and down then suddenly,
he paused and asked how much more they needed to save that
5th child. He was told just $70 and instantly his wheels started
turning in his brain on how he was going to raise the rest.

Touched, and filled with amazing love and hope, the next day at church his mom shared this joyous story with the congregation. After the service a man they had never met, handed them an envelope and simply said, “What Tyler is doing is wonderful, this should be enough for that 5th child”. She assumed it was the $70 needed for the 5th child but when Tyler opened the envelope it wasn’t, it was $500! They stood there in the lobby with tears rolling down their cheeks and silently they both knew this was about so much more than either one of them could have imagined. Tyler & his teacher decided to set an unprecedented goal of $50,000 and in the first year they raised over $38,000 through small fundraisers run by kids.

After the first carwash Tyler and his family got in touch with the International Organization for Migration which is the organization that runs the rescue, rehabilitation, return and reintegration program for these trafficked children in Ghana. Eric Peasah, Counter Trafficking Manager for the organization, who had been featured on that episode of Oprah, contacted the family after he heard what Tyler was doing.

A Visit From Africa:
Eric Peasah Visits the Children of Kids Helping Kids
Mr. Peasah became not only a friend but a wonderful source of first-hand information about this extensive program and provided pictures, videos and personal stories of the children.

Six months later and having raised $19,000, Mr Peasah came all the way from Africa to meet the children with big hearts of Kids Helping Kids. It was at this point that Tyler decided that even when he reached the $50,000 goal he could not stop --those children need our continued support.