planetGOLD Burkina Faso - Ensuring women miners share equally in benefits of mercury-free mining скачать в хорошем качестве

planetGOLD Burkina Faso - Ensuring women miners share equally in benefits of mercury-free mining

In Burkina Faso, women miners are an integral part of artisanal and small-scale gold mining operations. Due to circumstances such as divorce or widowhood, many are the heads of the household and rely on mining to provide for their families. Mining activities in the country are often informal, and women often directly handle mercury all day long in the process. The planetGOLD Burkina Faso project is working to raise awareness among women at the mine site about the dangers of mercury exposure, ensuring a role for them in new mercury-free processing systems or providing supplementary livelihood opportunities, and including women in the development of formal financing mechanisms. View the video to learn more about the Burkina Faso project's activities with women. For more information on planetGOLD Burkina Faso, visit https://www.planetgold.org/burkinafaso #MakeMercuryHistory #WomenInMining #BurkinaFaso #ResponsibleMining #genderequity #artisanalmining #mercuryfree