Fifty-three-year-old Ann Charles has been a miner for almost 30 years and for many of those years she has carried a heavy burden, one which grew heavier as the years went by. Many times she threw her hands up in despair as she felt powerless to fight the growing problem.
That growing burden is the continuous maltreatment of women who brave the interior to make living either by mining, cooking or even commercial sex work.
Charles said most of her time is spent in the interior, and daily she sees womenfolk being taken advantage of, and many times she is unable to help. However, now she feels that there is
