Thea ﾒ𝟶’s Reviews > Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives > Status Update

”Female artisanal miners suffered CHRONIC sexual assault, were paid much less than men, and had virtually no options for safety.” Women and girls are always exploited more in already exploitative environments 🙁

”Please tell the people in your country, a child in the Congo dies everyday so that they can plug in their phones.”

Forced child labour 😒☹️

1-2 thousand CHILDREN dig at Tilwezembe on any given day??😥

”so long as the political elite were content to continue the tradition of government-as-theft established by their colonial antecedents, the people of the Congo would continue to suffer.” 🫩🫩🫩

Are you worried you or he might get injured like Gloire? - Yes of course, but if we do not dig, we do not eat” :(

A layer of mustard colored dust on the whole town and people of Tenke… dried sulfuric acid 😟

”No one wants to live out there! But there is cobalt and gold, so the army takes the poorest people and makes them dig.” 🫩

”What did that child die for? For one sack of cobalt? Is that what Congolese children are worth?” Absolutely horrifying 💔

Ofc there’s artisanal production on industrial sites as well 😐

Yeah this is why nobody helps them get education and stay in school, if the kids can’t attend school because the family need money to just survive -> they will keep being poor and then keep the cobalt chain running. Without so many poor people forced to dig the cobalt supply would cripple. They won’t help bcz it’s not in their best interest ☹️😡