A contact told him that a woman on Ghana’s Lake Volta was looking for an extra pair of hands around the house. Sometimes we’d take food to her husband who fished on the lake,” Charity recalls. Some need treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, Afedzie explains. “All the children have an adult caregiver assigned to them who we refer to as ‘mothers’ and ‘fathers’ of the house,” Afedzie explains. At an early age, he was put to work by his own father on the family fishing boat.