As each year, the AMADE jury has attributed a Special Award to reward a programme which deals with an issue of human relationships, non-featuring violence but with the purpose to reject it.

The 2008 AMADE Award goes to Infancia Traficada (Trafficked Childhood - TVI, Portugal), directed by Alexandra Borges.

The poorest regions in Africa are always enlighted with the bright smile of their children. And yet...

And yet, somewhere in Ghana, on the Lake Volta, there is a place where no joy appears in the eyes or the lips of the little fishing slaves.
Their forced work is to seek the fish deep inside filthy waters. The children have lost every happiness, and most of them will never find it back, because there own parents sold them, for a handful of Euros, to unscrupulous people. Above all this, they attended the negociations of the selling. Their moral and physic wounds are deep.

Portuguese TV channel TVI has been moved by this situation. As we know, a great part of the portuguese heart is african. The journalist Alexandra Borges manages to tell us this story by opening the door of hope, thanks to a local NGO: the Village of Hope, for which men of Africa succeed, step after step, in liberating the little unfortunates.