Traditionally mining is an adult male domain, but economic hardship and declining agricultural production have forced women and children into this sector, especially in gold mining.
Each day, the majority of women in mining areas endowed with gold deposits trudge along the trenches to dig and collect whatever they can lay their hands on.
Sometimes the process is arduous and laborious, never mind the challenges they encounter and endure such as the health dangers of using mercury, collapse of the dug out holes and even sexual abuse by their male counterparts.
But they cannot abandon the trade.
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