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The Organizations Ansar Burney Trust Anti-Slavery International Apne Aap Beyond Borders CAST Challenging Heights Coalition of Immokalee Workers Comissão Pastoral da Terra DEPDC ECPAT International Free the Slaves Friends of Orphans Girls Educational & Mentoring Services (GEMS) GoodWeave Hagar International Cocoa Initiative International Justice Mission Jeevika La Strada Maiti Nepal National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Polaris Project Shared Hope International Shramajivee Mahila Samity Somaly Mam Foundation Stop Modern Slavery Vital Voices

Challenging Heights HQ: Ghana Type: service provider Focus: child labor Scope: domestic Challenging Heights was founded by James Kofi Annan who is a survivor of child trafficking and worst forms of child labor. James later rose to become a university graduate and also rose to become manager at Barclays Bank of Ghana. James is the last and the only educated out of twelve children of his illiterate parents. He worked as a child fisherman in more than 20 villages along the Volta Lake from the age of 6 to 13, before he finally liberated himself. At the time he could neither read nor write. In April 2007, James resigned from Barclays Bank of Ghana in order to devote full time to mobilizing resources to promote the mission of Challenging Heights – providing education for formerly enslaved and vulnerable children.