In its first year of existence the Guyana Women Miners Association (GWMA) rescued five women from the interior who were being exploited and with the assistance of members even assisted in sending one of the women’s sons overseas for a basketball tournament.
“When I say recued, I mean by us going into the interior and bringing them out…we have paid their expenses, we paid all their hotels, fed them and we ensured that they were back with their families safely,” President of the GWMA Simona Broomes told the Sunday Stabroek in a recent interview.
She said one of the ladies who worked for months but was not paid,
