“There are no jobs and children are not going to school. They are all coming here to earn a living,” he said. “Women too have joined the bandwagon. The situation is really bad.”
Mothers cannot afford childcare and bring their small children to work, unaware of the risks from mercury exposure.
Zimbabwe, which ranks in the world’s top 10 countries using mercury in gold mining, is a signatory to the 2013 Minamata Convention on Mercury and is working towards ratification.
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