and backstage parties but place where no one attain stardom just like that superstore deejays starting november twenty fifth on d w. savitri moto works as a coal scavenger it's a tough job for a teenager it's also dangerous illegal and a health hazard. coal also has disastrous consequences for the climate india is already among the world's top polluters. every morning savitri toils for hours in the minds of giardia in eastern india. it's the country's coal belt where tens of thousands of people struggle to make a living. separately has to work in the mines to sustain her family and pay for college.

and. saw the three mother who is seventeen years old and she scavenge is in the open cost gold mines of chechnya in india. her brother shipped them are known as true is just night. starting with the weird when i first began working here everything seemed very scary to me and i loved that it was like seeing a ghost that we had a lot of there and right now the coal mines have become my friends but. i'm used to everything now. the two begin to dawn every day and work for four hours industrial binding has temporarily stopped in the spirit. normally machines would remove the

cord now it has to be hacked out of exposed seems. to. me. one time it is my first there was a lot of blood. i had to go to hospital. there are other challenges the field of getting caught is all too real scavenging is illegal. in this we worry about the police what did they do. they chase and why. and then they take away all the calls of that. so what. the police say don't do this work your thieves. on bostock i'm struggling to make a living that isn't stealing if i rob

a bank that's stealing. you can get killed doing this work. johnson think i want your id how is it stealing. but the government and the law don't see it that way. you know what i want to you come on this side. hold on tight it's heavy. joe to cut the cord fast you've been dragging your feet for the past hour and. a basket of cold ways at least thirty five to forty kilograms. some of the three makes four to five trips each day. oh.

my sandals come off. somebody is determined to finish the work exhaustion takes over who. can you do it totally i can't let you finish. a few hours of work which is the equivalent of about three euros that's more than what people here is daily brose the goal is a lifeline for the poor in the region some thirty thousand people work as scavengers in the mines.

some of the three has to first bundle coal she's collected to reduce it to celebrate chunks. no. lasting damage or do have plastic glass. if you. did it would desert walk slowly the flame will die out. wear down carefully. or are you going to build you up. again. i have my problems because of the smoke i sometimes work glasses at home i know the smoke is very harm that especially for the lungs. the burning coal causes air and water pollution. and it destroys everything it comes into contact with.

i know that. this helps to cook the coal faster. from the charcoal is sold on to local markets households and restaurants. tredrea sits atop one of india's largest gold reserves dozens of blazes rage below the ground some have been smoldering for more than a hundred years when underground mining first began most fires ignited spontaneously when minerals in the exposed coal heater. continued opencast mining has worsened the problem the fires cause the earth to fisher and collapse destroying houses and causing landslides. the resulting carbon emissions have

a devastating impact on the environment and the climate. saw the trees hard work doesn't pay off today. she's covered the chunks with ash to douse the fire a customer who had promised to buy her call doesn't show up she worked for three days to make despite. three desperately needed the money today. also know i've lost that money. that means our monetary problems at home will worsen so we'll really have to cut back on essential for a couple of days. if i had managed to sell call today i could have bought some food

rations for my family. it's a vicious cycle of poverty one that saw the three is determined to break. she rushes over after her work in the mines to get ready for college. rather than. most of the income from scavenging helps pay for her books and the right to ski for good studying is the only way out of the gold mines.

where i live most people are illiterate they just work and sleep it's a very small world i don't like it the world is so much bigger than that and i've learned a lot through my struggles but real learning begins with education if you're not educated you can't do anything. she is late for class today the teacher isn't angry she's used to it likes of the three many goes here in the minds. good morning. after class seven three runs into a best friend alicia. hong kong. saw the three feels accepted by her do they come from very different worlds alicia's family. is well off she doesn't need to work she's visited three but.

i'm so proud to have her as a friend. and then she's beautiful she just doesn't know it isn't. really.