5616 x 3744 px | 47,5 x 31,7 cm | 18,7 x 12,5 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
10 juin 2009
Lieu:
Terkwe,Northern Ghana. Ghana.
Informations supplémentaires:
Terkwe is a small semi-permanent gold mining community in Norther Ghana, near Bolgatanga. People live a life of subsistence, digging gold with their bare hands in small groups of private entrepreneurs, with the buyer being the main power. The buyer of the gold will also lend money to the men and women who work in the mines and in extracting the gold and often there this creates a dependency to the buyer which most find difficult to break.In the past children were often used in the mines as cheap labor and many poor families were relying on the income they generated. The work is tremendously dangerous with constant risks of collapsing mine shafts and inhaling poisonous fumes and dust. The local government and NGOs have managed to get the children out of the mines and into schools in this particular community, through offering loans and equipment in stead of children. It is thought thousands of children still work in mines around Ghana.
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