A local nongovernmental organization in Ghana is in a dispute with an international organization over fair wages for staff.
The dispute centers around a project that was itself focused on empowering workers — a five-year program funded by the United States Bureau of International Labor Affairs working to protect women and girls from exploitation in Ghana’s cocoa sector.
CARE USA was the primary grant holder, with the CARE Ghana country office taking over management of the project. Ghana-based Youth Opportunity & Transformation in Africa, or YOTA, was one of two implementing partners.
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Sara Jervingsarajerving
Sara Jerving is a Senior Reporter at Devex, where she covers global health. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, VICE News, and Bloomberg News among others. Sara holds a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Lorana Sullivan fellow. She was a finalist for One World Media's Digital Media Award in 2021; a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in 2018; and she was part of a VICE News Tonight on HBO team that received an Emmy nomination in 2018. She received the Philip Greer Memorial Award from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2014.
