Barefoot and shirtless, Karim Sawadogo, 9, works with his
uncle at a gold mine. He has been to school, but only for a while.
"My dream," he says, "is to make enough money so I don't
have to do this anymore." Image by Larry C. Price. Burkina Faso, 2013.
TIÉBÉLÉ, Burkina Faso - On the rocky ground outside the Kollo mining village near the border between Burkina Faso and Ghana, about 100 people are working, 30 or so of them children. They smash boulders into pebbles and pebbles into grit with primitive hammers and sticks. They haul buckets of well water up the hillside and, pouring this water into shallow pans filled with rock and dirt, they swirl the muddy mix, looking in the silt for tiny flecks of gold.
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Burkina Faso: Childhoods Lost in the Gold Mines | Pulitzer Center
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