The project will bring stakeholders together to implement laws, policies, and action plans to address child labor and working conditions in small-scale gold mining; increase access of artisanal mining communities to livelihood and social protection programs; and develop tools to increase transparency and monitoring of child labor and working conditions in gold mining supply chains.
Filipino children like Jonathon Ramorez use toxic mercury to amalgamate the gold. In a small plastic bag, he carries the mercury he needs, which he will pour over the gold and which will then evaporate.
This purifies the gold but poisons the air he breathes, as well as leeches into the soil and contaminates the water that sustains whole communities.
http://www.mb.com.ph/us-grant-to-help-reduce-child-labor-at-mines-in-ph-ghana/
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