…the smoke choked the men manning the front line. Three months war, William Hendon “…the smoke choked the men manning the front line.” — William Hendon I caught up with this Agbogbloshie ‘burner boy’ holding freshly recovered copper wires and smoking a cigarette against the backdrop of heavy toxic smoke heading for Accra Central. Urban Miner Puffing On A Cigarette At Agbogbloshie Urban […]
…the smoke choked the men manning the front line. Three months war, William Hendon “…the smoke choked the men manning the front line.” — William Hendon I caught up with this Agbogbloshie ‘burner boy’ holding freshly recovered copper wires and smoking a cigarette against the backdrop of heavy toxic smoke heading for Accra Central. Urban Miner Puffing On A Cigarette At Agbogbloshie Urban […]
…the smoke choked the men manning the front line.
Three months war, William Hendon
“…the smoke choked the men manning the front line.” — William Hendon
I caught up with this Agbogbloshie ‘burner boy’ holding freshly recovered copper wires and smoking a cigarette against the backdrop of heavy toxic smoke heading for Accra Central.
Urban Miner Puffing On A Cigarette At Agbogbloshie
Urban miners at Agbogbloshie use styrofoam packaging and scrap tires as fuel to openly burn electrical wires to reclaim the copper materials inside. The recovered copper materials are carted away, weighed and sold, for instant cash.
The price of copper at Agbogbloshie as of March 2020 was around GH₵10 (roughly $1.7 at that time) per pound.
Photo of Urban Miner Burning Electrical Wires At Agbogbloshie, Ghana
The burning of the wires at Agbogbloshie is a widely documented problem. This pollutes the land, the nearby Korle Lagoon, and the city’s air. Read more about this problem in the link below:
Hundreds of children are growing up in toxic spaces amid scarcity and deprivation. This casts a serious shadow over their future. Hundreds of children such as Kwaku Debrah below are growing up in toxic spaces amid scarcity and deprivation. This casts a serious shadow over their future. Child Labourer With Artificial Eye Kwaku Debrah is […]
They began work at 5:30 and quit at 7 at night. Children six years old going home to lie on a straw pallet until time to resume work the next morning! I have seen the hair torn out of their heads by the machinery, their scalps torn off, and yet not a single tear was […]
I ran into these youngsters having fun playing in sawdust inside Sodom and Gomorrah (Agbogbloshie), a densely populated slum in the heart of Accra, Ghana’s capital city. Much of this area is also known as Old Fadama. Millions of children in Ghana are growing up amid scarcity and deprivation. Twenty-eight percent of children in Ghana […]
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