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the, the family always heads out together leaving early in the morning. after traveling through mangrove success, the minutes that boat into swamps just north of central philippines. i think this is a good place. let me take that the to helio ramos is accompanied by his 13 year old son, how to his 15 year old nephew and ralph and 2 of his cousins

the this is okay, come this way. we can see it through here. and then i'm looking for the best place to stop the day's work. the family has come to search for go with a book of what we found some here in this area before. so we're hoping there's some in this book to the whole, dig

a bit more over there. okay . but here turn the, the whole needs to be big enough for how to work, and he's still small enough to fit in more easily than an adult. as the goal, the family is looking for is under the water. mario, come on stock. why is it not working with the compressor, pcc it supplies the person going on the water with their so that they can die for longer? it's a boy. oh, i know once the machine is running,

the air flows through these tank halfway through the setup all through the hose into the war. so the that, that, that, that's always been says. and then down into the pit we've dug or some sort of thing . but or really didn't up and such a compressor is designed to pump into call tires that here it will allow high to, to breeze under was holding the small tube in his mouth. he can stay in the pit for hours and collect too much from the bottom mode that will hopefully contain caustic goals of gold and guidelines. boy, once he sees and i always hope and pray that i'll come back up safely when i die. and that them, you know, because there have been diverse who were buried when pits collapsed on them. and i never made it back out. and i've been in comics, but once i'm down there it's a huge black. now i can only find my way with my hands out of

a mess and i'm really scared of being buried by the mud. and i'm not the one on because if you're lucky you come back up. but if not that let's you die down there . no 11 with the the . ringback ringback the philippines has of off deposits of gold, some of which have yet to be tapped as the islands and the central parts of the archipelago contain the most gold. this area holds huff as the country's title deposits the indigenous peoples with digging for

gold. here in the 16th century, already, even before the stats of spanish colonial rule, the gold rushes continued ever since. the state mining companies here have stopped their operations owing to a lack of funds that machinery is no longer in use, but many of that work has continued to dig on their own. usually in unsafe small scale mines. the guy competing for you, that's not, that's what the philippines is really lucky to have these gold deposits going to be somebody will probably never stop looking for gold. why don't you put on so many people, especially around to rely on it to make a letter? and if i find the a lot, but i've been doing this work for as long as i can remember. i mean, do you guys think people die?

but we keep going, going to put it in as long as there's oh, we'll keep searching for it. what made us an odd one get to the pc. ready these days there was thousands of selves done pits and shelves in this region . they operate without any form of government regulation. most of the digging here happens on the move to because it's in the river bed. the golden rule is said to be purest. the 70 percent of gold traded in the philippines comes from mines in this region. the fluid, in by dreams of 14 antonia families joined the search men, women,

and children. according to an international n g of thousands of children work here with the parents hoping to find a few specs of gold. the had a problem on the tube slip out of my mouth. i'm okay. i just feel cold when hot, so it's down there. i'm scared because he's not safe. he's still a child. the side for the 1st, they seem to grow up in

a different environment at all for the full time, but there's no other work here. so we accept the situation by, i'm going to be doing something different. you know what i'm doing this so that we have something to eat tomorrow. and so that i can go to school guide. during the 2 hours, he spend tons of all to how to felt dozens of sex with much which is called the he yourself to the surface. they have to sift through this to find the gold particles in the garden. say that's the gold from the month that i collect it down there with the letters. i me that's a lot with the one. i mean guys,

high toes working day is no say over yet before they can sell the gold. he and his cousin and drop off still have to process it. literally, we have to extract to the gold to do that, they mix that collection of particles with mercury, a highly toxic metal that attacks the respiratory tract on the brain. the . now we're burning off the mercury to get it. the gold. this step is really important. need to but if we mess this up, we lose everything and it would have been for nothing. but let us put smells bad but i'm used to it, but it doesn't give me headaches anymore. done. we get me some water to the front of the or

the good evening. so what are you got for me today? oh, that's a small one. when not all the money, all it weighs the same as a grains of rice long. okay. one grain of rice is $65.00 cases. multiply that by 8 and you get 520 patients. oh do you need that? you find how many of you were there be no doubt by no 5 lima device. so divided by 5 all for uber and $104.00 piece us each one. 0,

for $100.00 and full pay. so that's a little more than one year. right. 50, i mean i was that, and i'm, we were hoping for at least $200.00 pesos each month at least now we can buy rice and some meat down. and even though it's tough then with all the mud and the digging, i think it was worth it. landing spot us. how many blows up on the phone you'll have to share yourselves. full. 34592. well, thank you table. evelyn santos. we'll mix the goals and i'll get with those of the other minus and then sell them on to bulk by as you move in this out. and then again, i don't feel guilty buying gold from children, no problem or the just the,

the now it's more that i so sorry for the metal they shouldn't be doing that. let's see the by their goal because they need the money now. now we're going to do so i feel sorry for them, but you have a duty to buy their goals because they worked so hard to get it in a get up on time and for me as a buyer again. so it's also important that i help my family now, my company to come in again. it's a win win situation for all the familiar. but if the, the, my mom died i'm going twice a week when he's not with king, how to goes to school. it's free in the philippines, but the motorcycle cab to get that costs $10.00 pesos. the equivalent of $0.20 paid

full with the money he got for the gold the day before. and then that over i feel good when i go to school because i learned a lot of it. my favorite subject is math because i like counting and arithmetic the from has today. as i said, we're going to do reading test. i know from one by one that says seen how so is the oldest in his class. the others around the 9. he's full install behinds due to his constant absence over 90. i read this one 1st off,

you go no of the. i mean, when in my been 6 of the children in this school work in the gold mines in the fact it makes me sad to know that when the children are missing there in the shops guess what their age, they belong here in schools here. but publish, she drives them then if you need to see in their system. but it's very important that these children come to school because this is where they can do the future. with the school leaving certificate, they can choose a good career. but if they don't go to school, because they will continue to work in the mind slices, because they haven't learned anything else. i'm by. that's why it's so important that they come here,

look up on the scene and by that means you're not going to school. but sometimes mom doesn't have enough money to send me here on campus, but i would like to finish school so that i can fulfill my dream and no longer have to mine gold. when i grow up, i want to join the army, the 350 kilometers from the capital. one town in this province has become a hub for the gold trade protocol and the name petracola means canals and refers to the gold minus 45000 people here and make their living from the trade 3 quarters of the population

a and a base tobias, i'm the seller's business is booming, the way my lean make coffee, get us to come. we'll come to power attorney building to meet the 4 hour visit doors. asking victorians together with my husband, he is the land originally uncle, and be stores during may term us 18 years municipal council or 18 years asked when did you come to the deepest i mean by end here in our town it to cut ok. my grandchildren is cargo he system for when they get older. and if get that

done by c c, c, the choker, my grandson, we'll see. hi, be we shy, shy, so lucky. so lucky, i know everything i have to day to the gold and the mines. once again, we were able to build a house by land. i shan't break type of fun with my children were able to go to school and we also help other family members who we have 60 employee and then somebody on the move mine is we have the more we um got a lot of things. so the, i'm moving, i mean, self funded info and because i'm mining company is registered with the thirty's, a bed florida. the co has a license to sell. how goes to the philippines? central bank. oh man, man, man, man. yeah. man. yeah, i'm really gives me

a go and be enough and show me what you've got and the full people them. how to carla. i mean, possession of one of these precious licenses. 9.3 grams about also bodies gold from the middleman who procure the stock from small scale minus like hot toes. families thanks to her license, she can then legally re sell the gold l. so you get $28576.00 pieces of she ends over $2500.00 heroes a month, 10 times the average wage. in the philippines, the gold she's buying here has again come from underwater mining. this these came from the home press, are mining from brass or sack sean coming from other location on one of the brown guy?

yeah. the sometimes which comes from tv. oh no. no. no. how can you be sure? i don't know because uh, the rest of my name such as it should be there fine or no worth or nothing. the children alone, but sometimes sometimes a child might for example, bring food for the father. and so that's what do you then say that these children are working in the mind? someone else turn to no one. all government has them child labor by the government . the every one and protocol as seems to be against child labor. but hardly anyone is really doing anything about it. one of the few who is outspoken on the subject is

a man who spends his own childhood mining for gold to allow this is my mine here. my employees are at work right now. the moment the whole hon several seen desco stuff, he'd diving for gold when he was 12 years old. but he managed to leave his old life behind these days, he's a local politician with his own mining company. the loading was how are you doing almost how's the work going? they've not been well, that's why isn't the machine operating the

sarah scene has always refused to have children working in his mind. i've got a lower level associating the authority should investigate these situations and evaluate whether parents are pushing their children to work. yeah, no, we've done that. if so, you know, the parents are responsible and should be punished, misplaced, we ended up reading the incentive. but if the state doesn't care, if it passes laws but doesn't enforce or implement them and will be at no. and the state also bears it, share of responsibility to implement equipment. and i've looked at the

t and minus on life and wrote you flowers when i say someone is thinking of you coming out of san nickel, shady nickel, i'm afraid of him when i get my son was looking for gold under water in a shelf near here. and there was a landslide by the sign and he was digging down in the shop, which collapsed and buried. came in the mud line. yeah. so i mean, i'm wondering, i know he's friends, go down to but he didn't, and i was mad as by myself. oh, we dug for almost an hour to find his body by now. we took him to the hospital, but he was already dead. so i think what i'm saying on this to southern uh is it goes mine from carla just like his own father did with him. he took his young son into the mines and told him to die for gold.

no but i see in a little better lennox mindful with them. if i hadn't taught him, he would never have learned how to search for gold under water and i left him a go and that was what killed him. so my mama and today there's nothing i can do in the animal. it's too late to. i always tell parents not to send their children into the mines because that cost my son, his life and it's very hard to lose a child. i can't even put my feelings into words. so this is the, every yeah, around 20 minus die in this area, buried in the depths along with that dream of gold, the 800 kilometers for the south on the island of late a of the fathers. they're also teaching that children to pursue the same dream.

for the past 3 years, 14 year old dennis dounia has spent every weekend diving in the world war 2 as if the whole see i'm a bit nervous because i'm going back to work the mind that i put on the rest of the week. i go to school. i like only my money here now like one of them. i don't turn anything from hanging around at home. the none of the divers searching for gold on the sea bed half diving cylinders. just like in the swamp. they have only a plastic tube linked to a compressor. dennis dounia will send 8 hours underwater today. the narrow hose, this is, and the supply. his safety line,

the he plunges to a depth of 20 meters, the joining of the diocese, the middle one's back already and he's brought some 6. the

each sack weighs the t t lows with an average of $0.15 per day. they hope to find one gram of gold. the may see, ma'am, a single what junior's doing as impressive as i believe that that i'm not a good dive or not, but he's a master at it because his father taught them so that he could help support the family. and then i don't know if i'd bring my son, is it pretty risky down there? today the dive is from late a are in luck. they found 2 grams of gold and will shift 3600 pesos between them equal to around 6 years past and

the, oh my god knows that about i'm proud of what i do because this is my people's job. if i'm a proud, proud when it's how we make a living. yeah. but when i moved the of to a short break in the fresh. yeah. dennis junior returns to the sea. he head straight back down to the mine, to walk in the depths and search for gold, the discover,

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