Saving Dorsen and his friends
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This little boy is suffering. He's so lonely. His name is Dorsen and he works in a mine where cobalt is extracted for smartphones. His mum is dead. I watched this report on Sky News. It broke my heart, so much so that we've put a new website online: www.childrenplay.org, dedicated to helping Dorsen and his friends.
There's a chance that your smartphone contains elements mined by these exploited and suffering children.
Dorsen is 8 years old. He's small, beaten down, malnourished, depressed, in pain and exhausted. He and his friends work hour after hour in terrible conditions.
The work itself is so dangerous to their health. Lung problems. Cancer. They risk being beaten when they "under perform".
Dorsen is exhausted and ill.
He says, "When I'm working here, I'm suffering. My mother, she's already dead. And I have to work all day and my head hurts me."
His friend, Richard, says, "When I wake up every morningI feel terrible knowing I have to come back here again. Everything hurts."
And yet they work and work - but sometimes they don't earn enough to eat that day, or the day before. These kids aim to earn 8p a day. That's what they survive on, if they survive at all. Children die at work. They get drowned or buried in rubble.
After watching the report, my mum and I made a donation to UNICEF who do work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The next morning, I was still haunted. How would I know that this boy, invited by global media to speak of his misery, would be helped by anyone? This is complete despair. And that's why I'm fund raising - for Dorsen and his friends.
The next time you are texting, or surfing on your phone, perhaps you will think of Dorsen and Richard; their hunger, pain and loneliness. The world is a cruel, unfair place. People are treated so badly. We need our smartphones but these children need something much more important. A break from suffering.
Please, please help me raise money for these children. Let's transform their lives. Watch the Sky report and see how frail this little boy is.
http://news.sky.com/story/meet-dorsen-8-who-mines-cobalt-to-make-your-smartphone-work-10784120
If you can help, however small the donation, I will make sure these children are helped. I've made a Facebook page so you can follow my progress.
Thank you so much.
https://www.facebook.com/Dorsenandfriends
Child labour in cobalt mines isn't a new problem.
#SHAME on those who buy #colbalt, not caring that it was mined by frail, abused, ill and starving children.
There's a chance that your smartphone contains elements mined by these exploited and suffering children.
Dorsen is 8 years old. He's small, beaten down, malnourished, depressed, in pain and exhausted. He and his friends work hour after hour in terrible conditions.
The work itself is so dangerous to their health. Lung problems. Cancer. They risk being beaten when they "under perform".
Dorsen is exhausted and ill.
He says, "When I'm working here, I'm suffering. My mother, she's already dead. And I have to work all day and my head hurts me."
His friend, Richard, says, "When I wake up every morningI feel terrible knowing I have to come back here again. Everything hurts."
And yet they work and work - but sometimes they don't earn enough to eat that day, or the day before. These kids aim to earn 8p a day. That's what they survive on, if they survive at all. Children die at work. They get drowned or buried in rubble.
After watching the report, my mum and I made a donation to UNICEF who do work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The next morning, I was still haunted. How would I know that this boy, invited by global media to speak of his misery, would be helped by anyone? This is complete despair. And that's why I'm fund raising - for Dorsen and his friends.
The next time you are texting, or surfing on your phone, perhaps you will think of Dorsen and Richard; their hunger, pain and loneliness. The world is a cruel, unfair place. People are treated so badly. We need our smartphones but these children need something much more important. A break from suffering.
Please, please help me raise money for these children. Let's transform their lives. Watch the Sky report and see how frail this little boy is.
http://news.sky.com/story/meet-dorsen-8-who-mines-cobalt-to-make-your-smartphone-work-10784120
If you can help, however small the donation, I will make sure these children are helped. I've made a Facebook page so you can follow my progress.
Thank you so much.
https://www.facebook.com/Dorsenandfriends
Child labour in cobalt mines isn't a new problem.
#SHAME on those who buy #colbalt, not caring that it was mined by frail, abused, ill and starving children.
Organizer
Flinty Maguire
Organizer