Meet Lilian Von Trapp, The Jewellery Designer Speaking Up Against Unethical Gold-Mining

She was shocked by what she read about how gold is sourced – and the often crippling impact on mining communities. “In the gold pits of Uganda, there isn’t only the danger of dying by being crushed,” she says, “the other horrible situation is – and this is why people in Uganda have a low life expectancy – they are handling mercury and cyanide with their bare hands. I’ve seen mothers my own age or even younger burning mercury without any protection while they have babies on their backs. Of course those toxins go into your organs and they destroy everything from within, and they also go into the groundwater, which contaminates the soil.”
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