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 […]
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 […]
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.
Kwaku Debrah is a 15-year-old e-waste miner who lives on the margins of Accra, Ghana’s capital city. He survives by cannibalizing from e-waste on the fringes of Agbogbloshie, Ghana.
Debrah lost his left eye to an accident when another child fired a sharp African broomstick from a slingshot at him — instantly puncturing his eyeball.
Fifteen years old Debrah does all sorts of works, but mainly uses his hands, stones, and hammers to break apart old electronics to retrieve the precious metals inside. This exposes him to toxic materials such as lead, mercury, and chromium.
Hazardous child labour remains a serious global issue.
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 […]
Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps. Brennan Manning “Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.” ― Brennan Manning Urban Poverty in Ghana Ms. Elizabeth is a poor woman who engages in petty-labour in order to survive in Accra’s harsh […]
Hi, Muntaka Chasant here. I'm, among many other things, an entrepreneur and a documentary photographer. I'm here on the front lines of urban struggle — only with my wits and cameras — capturing key moments, collecting untold stories, and helping to forge new paths.