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## Transcript

Around a hundred kilometers from Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou, lies a scene akin to the American wild west. In the village of [ INAUDIBLE ] hundred of diggers search for gold. A crucial source of income to the impoverished west African country. But behind the glitter of precious metal lies a sad reality, that the majority of the miners are children. Aged between five and 18, every day they lower themselves into rough, [ UNKNOWN ] tunnels, to seek their fortune. [ FOREIGN ]. When I grow up, I'm going to use my money to build myself a house. I don't go to school and I don't wish to go to school.

I think I can earn more from gold panning. According to UNICEF, as many as 700, 000 children and adolescents work in six hundred illegal mines across Burkina Faso, which officially produce one ton of gold. Compared to thirty two tons from industrial mines. And for many of the children who earn between seven and eight euros a day, the work is their only chance of survival. [ FOREIGN ]. I've been at this gold washing site for three years. I look for gold to pay for lessons, for motorbikes, for cars. I didn't go to school, quite simply because no one put me in school. Anyone who comes here knows that it's a hard job.

It's because we don't have anything else to do that we stay here. The work is tough, so tough that it can kill. In early December a tunnel collapsed at an illegal mine, left fourteen people dead in the west of the country. NGOs have spoken out about the danger faced by the miners, who work more than ten hours a day, close to toxic stocks of cyanide and mercury. [ FOREIGN ]. We noticed that a number of children who work on the sites are employed in work which is dangerous for them, physically dangerous, but it can be the case, in fact it's often the case that the children work underground in the galleries.

Over the past three years NGO's have brought 21, 000 children out of the mines, and the government has promised to form an agency to oversee safety. But in on of the world's poorest countries. Many thousands of children will continue to be drawn to the gold rush, no matter what the risks. [ FOREIGN ]

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