Gambaga Witch camp is a segregated community within Gambaga township in the Northern Region of Ghana established in the 18th century to accommodate alleged witches and wizards who are banished from their communities.The camp has about 25 round huts, and holds about 100 women. No health services or indoor plumbing are available.Many women in Ghana's witch camps are widows and it is thought that relatives accused them of witchcraft in order to take control of their husbands' possessions.Many women also are mentally ill, a little understood problem in Ghana.In Gambaga, the women are given protection by the local chieftain and in return, pay him and work in his fields.( Source: Wikipedia).

Alleged witches are often the most poor and vulnerable in the community – women, specifically elderly women, disabled women and girls. Suspicions are so common (at least in rural areas), that almost everyone knows an elderly woman in their community who has been suspected of being a witch. The belief is so rampant that an alleged witch may herself
believe that she is a witch, although she does not practice consciously.At times, women are subjected to witch hunts, often resulting in violent abuse, torture and death.(Source: Sara Pierre; McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism)

"Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. Fear of imprisonment, fear of torture, fear of death, fear of losing friends, family, property or means of livelihood, fear of poverty, fear of isolation, fear of failure. A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity. It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man."(Source: Aung San Suu Kyi, Freedom from Fear; Goodreads)

MY POINT OF VIEW.

In my opinion, it will be good to dissolve witch camps in Ghana since it infringes on the right of the alleged witches. If family members think they can't take care of their elderly grandparents because of their busy schedules or any other reason, he/she can have them sent to a good retirement home where they would be taken good care of.

I know some of these alleged witches go to these camps(like KPATINGA CAMP) to flee from domestic violence and they are kind of happy there even though they become outcasts in the community. (Source:  https://youtu.be/t4AqaDpCV4k  [PLEASE WATCH] )

In this case, the name has to be changed from witch camps to a more positive name and the place has to be modernized for them to feel comfortable when living there.

On the spiritual level,if family members believe that their elderly grandparents are witches,they should be sent to spiritual pastors who will be able to pray for them.

PLEASE WATCH

( https://youtu.be/YtK0gxdiX5w ) 

( https://youtu.be/w0E1igNWIDg )

Please help let us fight for the right of the alleged witches and to dissolve witch camps. This definitely shows that EDUCATION is VERY IMPORTANT.  #humanright #CHRAJ #Ghana #Africa