Child Rights · Accra
Thrown out at seventeen: queer youth homelessness in Accra
Family rejection, not arrest, is what most often puts a young LGBTI Ghanaian on the street.
12 August 2026
Most of the young people who reach us have never been charged with anything. They were found out at home or at school, and they were put out. Ghana's child protection law obliges the state to protect children from harm regardless of who they are, but a child rejected for being suspected of being gay rarely finds that protection at a social welfare office.
Without an address, everything else falls away: school registration, a Ghana Card, a bank account, safe work. What follows is exploitation that no one records as a human rights abuse.
We provide referrals to emergency accommodation and counselling where places exist, and we document the cases so that the scale of this stops being invisible.
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