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of the for the year turn the the whole needs to be big enough for her 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 of the mario. come on stock. why is it not working with the compressor, dcc, it supplies the person going on the water with their so that they can die for longer and it's a for you or i know from when the machine is running,
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the flows through these tank and have one i don't think the setup all through the host into the war. so the, the that, that, that does all that says and then down into the pit we dug or something but or anything up and down the front to compress. the is designed to pump into call tires, but 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 much from the bottom mode that will hopefully contain particles of gold. and guidelines, boy, once he sees and i always hope and pray that i'll come back up safely when i died at that time, you know, because there happened divers who were buried when pits collapsed on them. and i never made it back out. and that's the new comic, but once i'm down there, it's a huge black. now i can only find my way with my hand out of
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a messy then if you my i'm really scared of being buried by the mother. i'm not the one on because if you're lucky, you come back up. but if not, i will see you die down there. with no one else, like the philippines has evolved deposits of gold, some of which have yet to be tempt as the islands and the central parts of the archipelago contains the most gold. this area holds huff, that's the country's title deposits the
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indigenous peoples with digging for golds here in the 16th century. already, even before the stats of spanish colonial rule, the gold rushes continued ever since. the state mining companies 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 minus the guy computed fee. that's not the philippines. it's really lucky to have these gold deposits to go to be some people probably never stop looking for gold. why don't you put on so many people, especially around here, rely on it to make a living for family a lot. but i've been doing this work for as long as i can remember. you guys and
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people die, but we keep going and put it in. as long as there's old will keep searching for it . what made us an, an odd one getting to the these days there was silence and self dug. 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 . ready the 70 percent of gold traded in the philippines comes from mines in this region. the fluid in by dreams, the full tune, antonia families, join the search men, women,
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and children. according to an international n g of thousands of children, what care with the parents hoping to find a few specs of gold? the had a problem on the tube slipped out of my mouth. i'm okay. i just feel cold when hot, so it's down there and i'm scared because he's not safe. he's still a child. the side for 1st they seem to grow up in
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a different environment at all up at the full time, but there's no other work here. so we accept the situation by having to be on top of that promot. you know what i'm doing this so that we have something to eat tomorrow. and so that i can go to school. during the 2 hours he spent on the whole test how to felt dozens of sucks with much which his father he's up to the surface. they have to sift through this to find the gold particles. simply go in the garden, said that's the gold from the month that i collect it down there with the letters that me that's a lot with the one. i mean guys,
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high toes working day is no say over yet before they can sell the gold. he and his cousin and dropoff still have to process it. literally, we have to extract to the gold to do that. they mix that collection of particles within that curie. a highly toxic metal that attacks the respiratory tract on the brain. the need to do 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 then used to it, but it doesn't give me headaches anymore. the animal done. so we get me some water the or
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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 of 65 cases. multiply that by 8 and you get 520 patients. oh do you need them? you find how many of you were there be no doubt by the name of 5 lima peabody. so divided by 5 all for uber and $104.00 pace us each one. 0,
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for $100.00 and full pay. so that's a little more than one year, right? 50. i mean, i was added um we were hoping for at least $200.00 pesos each, but at least now we can buy rice and some meet a fanatic even though it's tough then with all the mud and the digging. i think it was worth it landing spot us. how many bullets have and i thought you'll have to share yourselves. full 34592. well, thank you. 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 into south and then game, i don't feel guilty buying gold from children and no problem. i'll give you the
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indian now it's more that i feel sorry for the metal, they shouldn't be doing that and i'll see them indeed them and that i by their goal because they need the money now. now they're going to use, 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 the menu, simon for me as a buyer. and again, 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 the, the, my mom, dad, i'm going twice a week when he's not with king tow goes to school. it's free in the philippines. but the motorcycle cab to get that costs 10 pesos. the equivalent of $0.20 paid
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full with the money he got for the gold the day before. and then 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 follow one by one that says seen how so is the oldest in his class. the others around the 9. he's full install behind due to his constant absence. over $93.00. this one says off he goes and
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no, oh, i mean, really in my good 6 of the children in this school work in the gold mines is better than the fact. it makes me sad to know that when the children are missing, they're in the shops. at their age. they belong here in schools here at publish, he drives them, then they need this evening. so, 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 their minds license because they haven't learned anything else. and i'm by, that's why it's so important that they come here, look up on the ceiling or by that means
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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 of kyla means canals and refers to the gold minus 45000 people here make their living from the trade 3 quarters of the population. and
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for the base, the buyers and the sellers business is booming, the mainland mainly make coffee to get us the cups the lobby will come to a power attorney building to me for the 4 hour visit doors. asking victorians together with my husband, he is the land originally uncle, and be stores during major us 18 years municipal council or 18 years asked when did you come to the deepest i mean by and here in our town to cut out my grandchildren cargo t system for when they get sold and they've got that done by c c
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c, the choker, my grandson realtor, see hi, we shy, shy, are so lucky. so lucky i owe 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 seen the employee and then somebody the more mine is we have the more we um got a lot of things. so the, i'm moving, i mean, self funding info and because i'm mining company is registered with the thirty's about of florida. the oh cool. has a license to sell. how goes to the philippines? central bank. oh man, man, man, man, that's probably
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a maybe i'm really gives me a goal and be enough and show me what you've called early, full people. them. how to carla, are in possession of one of these precious licenses. 9.3 grams about also bodies. gold from the middleman who puts you this stock from small scale minus like high toast family. thanks to high license, she can then legally re sell the gold l. so you get 28576 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 compressor and my name from press or shock sean coming from other location on one of the bottom one guy. yeah. do you sometimes go which comes from tv?
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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 to children alone. but sometimes sometimes a child might, for example, bring food for their father. but what do you then say that these children are working in the mind? no one, all government has them child labor. by, you know, by was the government. the everyone in ca decala seems to be against child labor. but hardly anyone is really doing anything about it. one of the few who is outspoken on the
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subject is a man who spends his own childhood mining for gold to allow this is my mine here at the my employees are at work right now. the moment the hon several seen desk goes, does he 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 learning was how are you doing the forest? how's the work going? if not, then why isn't the machine operating the
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cetera scene has always refused to have children working in his mind? i've got all of those things on, on 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. may have a splinter, 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 then the state also bears it, share of responsibility to implement with one another within the know the
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key in mind. so and i wrote you flowers when i see someone is thinking of the handling, i just had a knuckle, shady, nickel homepage. and when i get my son was looking for gold underwater in a shelf me here. and there was a landslide by the sign and he was digging down in the shopped, 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 did not know because matt is certainly something we dug for almost an hour to find his body by not having we took him to the hospital and he went but he was already dead i think the one on a pain of the honest to southern uh is it goes mine it 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,
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but i see in a little beverly and it's mindful with him when if i hadn't taught him, he would never have learned how to search for gold under water and i would i left him a go and that was what killed him. mama. and today there's nothing i can do in the animal. it gets too late to. i always tell parents not to send their children into the mines because that cost my son, his life a moment, then it's very hard to lose a child. i can't even put my feelings into words every year around 20 minus die in this area, buried in the depths along with that dream of gold. the 800 kilometer is for the south on the island of late a of the fathers. they're also teaching that children to pursue the same dream.
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for the past 3 years, 14 year old dennis dounia has spent every weekend diving in the world war to is if the whole see one, 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. i don't turn anything from hanging around at home. the none of the divers searching for gold on the sea bed to have diving cylinders. just like in the swamp, they have only a plastic tube linked to a compressor of the dentist junior will spend 8 hours under water today. the narrow hose is only asked, apply his safety line the
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each sack weighs the t t lows with an average of 15 sacks per day. they hope to find one graham of gold. the may seem a single mean, i'm not sure what junior is doing as impressive as a be that i know i'm not a good diver and that, but he's a master at it because his father taught him so that he could help support the family. and then i don't know if i'd bring my son some pretty risky down there of the today, the davis from late k, r in lock, they found 2 grams of gold and will shift 3600 pesos between them equal to around 6 heroes per person
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oh my goodness, i am 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, we have a one of the of do a short break and the fresh. yeah. dennis junior returns to the sea. he head straight back down to the mine to walk in the depths a and such so goals, the
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