Women miners’ organization finds eight-year-old in mining pit

Garbage strewn in a section of Bartica

Child labour in the Puruni Backdam

A little boy is down in a mining pit working feverishly among adult men who are puffing their cigarettes and chatting among themselves, their conversations punctuated with profanities. The child, no more than eight years old, even contributed to the stories told.

This was just one of the of the disturbing cases of child labour members of the Guyana Women Miners’