Stop child labor in mines.

 

 For a long time the mining companies and unlicensed mines have criticised for employing children to the mines. It is illegally and inhuman act. They exposed to mercury, heavy dust, and work long shifts without safety gear.

This endangers their health. Most of the miners use children because underpaid and simple to control.

The Government is aware of the problem but has struggled to keep children out of small, unlicensed mines. The laws do not allow children under 14 to work, and hazardous work not permitted for children over 14.

Tanzania has signed all major international conventions on child labour and introduced its own laws to prevent the worst child labour. Laws enforce lack fund funds for inspections, let alone pursue prosecutions.

Lake Victoria's gold belt, where gold has extracted since the 1890s, licensed and unlicensed small mines operate with major mining firms close by.

Majority of children working in mines employed with individuals running these unlicensed mines. They are among the worst exploited of the mines' workers, typically earning about 3000 TSH per day.

The poverty facing communities and a dream for a good life said to be the reasons children flock to mining sites.

It is a high time for stallholders to team up to eradicate the problem. Government must increase budget and staff to law enforcers so they can reach to remoteness area to do investigation