2,000 activists receive training under WACAM

A statement issued to mark the 15th anniversary of the formation of Wacam said the technological change from underground mining to surface mining in the 1980s  and the use of cyanide in heap-leach method of gold extraction altered the mining sector drastically.
The statement jointly signed by Mr Daniel Owusu-Koranteng, Executive Director and Mrs Hannah Owusu-Koranteng,  Associate Executive Director of Wacam, and co- founders said  the changed unleashed  myriad  of problems including cyanide spillages;, loss of livelihoods; water and air pollution; mining related health problems in mining communities; resettlement and relocation of communities and youth unemployment as farming lands were given out to mining companies.
It  said it was in the midst of all these that Wacam was founded to champion the cause of vulnerable mining communities  against a very powerful mining lobby.
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