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Gems slaves: Child labour in Tanzania

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Subido el 26 de junio de 2007 por EducaMadrid

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Around the world, more than 240 million children are put to work, three quarters of them in the most dangerous of conditions. Our cameras will take you inside the mines of Tanzania to witness life as a child laborer.

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Around the world, more than 240 million children are put to work, 00:00:00
three-quarters of them in the most dangerous of conditions. 00:00:06
Our cameras will take you inside the mines of Tanzania 00:00:10
to witness life as a child labourer. 00:00:14
At the mines, we sift through sand and gems. 00:00:24
Sometimes we find nothing. 00:00:31
The mine can collapse on you. 00:00:36
You can slip and fall. 00:00:40
While sifting, you swallow the dust. 00:00:44
You can get really hurt. 00:00:47
Wilson Peter is 12 years old. 00:00:54
Unlike young boys in some parts of the world, 00:00:58
he doesn't go to school, he doesn't have a bicycle, 00:01:01
and rather than being carefree, 00:01:04
he bears the burden of having to work to feed his family. 00:01:06
Merorani, Tanzania. 00:01:14
The only place on earth where the rare Tanzanite gem is found. 00:01:17
The popular gem generates an estimated 500 million U.S. dollars annually for traders. 00:01:22
Only 20 million U.S. dollars goes to Tanzania, 00:01:31
and almost zero to the children. 00:01:35
If they don't find a gem, they don't get paid. 00:01:38
Hundreds of independently operated shafts like this one 00:01:44
account for roughly 80% of Merorani's Tanzanite production. 00:01:47
And every day, child miners between the ages of 8 to 14 00:01:52
risk their lives in poorly constructed shafts. 00:01:56
Are there dangers in the mines? 00:02:02
Yes. 00:02:05
What kinds of danger? 00:02:06
Chest pains, falling rocks, falling in the mine. 00:02:09
Do you think it is okay for kids to work in the mines? 00:02:17
No, I do not like it, 00:02:22
because they always send you up and down the pit for water, 00:02:25
soda and the digger, yet you are just a child. 00:02:31
Local organizations working to get children out of the mines 00:02:39
estimate the number of child miners in Tanzania at 3,000. 00:02:43
Fifteen-year-old Muthias is a former child miner. 00:02:53
Life in the mines was very hard. 00:03:01
I would often work for no money and no food. 00:03:04
Because of dust and bad air in the pits, I had problems with my chest. 00:03:07
Muthias left the mines as soon as he was able to convince 00:03:14
a local mechanic to give him a job. 00:03:19
Those that remain, like Wilson Peter and his family 00:03:24
and the other 30,000 mining families in Merorani, 00:03:28
survive on less than a dollar a day. 00:03:32
Wilson Peter's mother says she's unhappy that her child works in the mines, 00:03:36
but they have little choice. 00:03:41
They give me money to help us survive and to help me take care of them, 00:03:45
some for food, some to continue our business. 00:03:50
That's why we allow them to try their luck in the mines. 00:03:58
We're not happy with our kids working, but look how we live. 00:04:02
As you can see, we barely get by. 00:04:06
Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest proportion of child laborers 00:04:15
of any region in the world. 00:04:19
The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, 00:04:25
estimates as many as 29 percent, or 40 million, working children. 00:04:29
But their labor is not enough to pull their families out of poverty. 00:04:34
We have seen that over the years, the poverty levels have increased, 00:04:39
that families cannot be able to take care of their own children. 00:04:43
Grace Banya is the coordinator of the International Labor Organization 00:04:49
Program on the Elimination of Child Labor. 00:04:53
The outcome will be that we'll have a gap or a generation of people 00:04:57
who are not educated, who don't have any skills whatsoever, 00:05:02
to contribute to human development. 00:05:07
This is a big challenge for the government. 00:05:10
Harry Mushi is the director of the Mararani Good Hope Program, 00:05:13
set up to rehabilitate child miners and impoverished families. 00:05:17
He says even though Tanzania's government 00:05:22
is part of an international strategy to eliminate child labor, 00:05:25
it's fighting a losing battle. 00:05:29
It's the government's wish that all kids go to school. 00:05:35
But there aren't enough schools for these kids. 00:05:38
So where will they go? 00:05:41
The fact is, kids don't go to school. 00:05:45
The fact is, kids still work in the mines. 00:05:49
Currently, the number of child miners is increasing. 00:05:53
Children not working is a right. 00:05:57
I mean, they have to be in school is a right. 00:05:59
But who makes sure that right is realized is me and you and everybody. 00:06:02
So a good policy makes making sure that we enforce the policies that are passed. 00:06:06
For Wilson Peter, 00:06:14
the right to go to school may soon be realized 00:06:16
through the efforts of the Good Hope Program. 00:06:19
But with its limited resources, 00:06:22
it manages to reach only 10% of child miners. 00:06:24
When the Tanzanite gem was discovered by the Maasai tribes, 00:06:32
they believed the blue color made it special 00:06:37
and began the tradition of giving the gem to their wives 00:06:40
when they had their first children as a celebration of new life. 00:06:43
And perhaps that's what Wilson Peter will be doing 00:06:49
when he leaves the dark shafts of the mines 00:06:52
for the bright lights of a classroom. 00:06:55
If I were president of Tanzania, 00:06:59
I wouldn't allow kids to work in the mines. 00:07:02
I would take people who allow kids to work in the mines 00:07:05
and lock them up. 00:07:09
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Fecha:
26 de junio de 2007 - 16:31
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Enlace Relacionado:
21st Century Television Series
Duración:
07′ 13″
Relación de aspecto:
4:3 Hasta 2009 fue el estándar utilizado en la televisión PAL; muchas pantallas de ordenador y televisores usan este estándar, erróneamente llamado cuadrado, cuando en la realidad es rectangular o wide.
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