Gold mining is full of hazards, from land degradation to air pollution and devastating environmental pollution.
Dan said: “When it rains, the water flows into the river, the animals drink the polluted river water and get sick.
“The river is where local people wash their gold. They wash their children and they wash their clothes. I have witnessed air pollution myself. We suffer poisons from blasts from the use of explosives.”
Miners use mercury and cyanide to extract gold, often without training or safety equipment.
Dan believes Fairtrade certification could bring hope and a better life for the miners and their families in the way it has done for workers in tea, coffee, bananas in Kenya and globally.
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