Victoria was just one of more than 10,000 children across the country involved in small scale, informal gold mining – known locally as ‘galamsey’.
These
children risk their health and lives carrying out back-breaking work in
treacherous conditions simply to earn enough to eat.
Children in the mines risk pits collapsing on them and injury from dangerous tools and machinery.
In
the long term they may have health problems caused by continued
exposure to rock dust, skeletal damage due to transporting heavy loads
and toxic poison from mercury used to bind the gold.
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