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uncommercial-Short-Mood-Documentary by Chris Caliman 2011 Canon 7D Music: Gustavo Santaolalla - Can Light Be Found in the Darkness? Agbogbloshie is a suburb of Accra, Ghana known as a destination f...

uncommercial-Short-Mood-Documentary by Chris Caliman 2011 Canon 7D Music: Gustavo Santaolalla - Can Light Be Found in the Darkness? Agbogbloshie is a suburb of Accra, Ghana known as a destination f...

In Agbogbloshie, Ghana, thousands of young women and men burn electronic waste to extract minerals at a cost to their health. They need more protection.

In Agbogbloshie, Ghana, thousands of young women and men burn electronic waste to extract minerals at a cost to their health. They need more protection.

In Agbogbloshie, Ghana, thousands of young women and men burn electronic waste to extract minerals at a cost to their health. They need more protection.

Agbogbloshie, in Ghana’s capital city, Accra, is a sprawling, open-air scrapyard located next to a lagoon and a growing informal settlement. Roughly 6,000 people dismantle, recycle and burn old and broken electronics there. The world produces approximately 62 million tonnes of electronic or e-waste every year. The Agbogbloshie site is one of the world’s biggest. E-waste is old, broken and thrown away electronic devices with cords or batteries, such as cellphones, household appliances, and televisions. Over 80% is dumped in landfills or processed informally by workers who have no health and safety protections, operating largely without government oversight, support, or occupational safety. Read more: Why Nigeria needs to manage electronic waste better Much of the world’s e-waste is shipped to countries like Ghana in west Africa where copper and aluminium are extracted, and batteries containing lithium and cobalt are recycled. The old electronics are burned out in the open to extract the minerals. Uncontrolled acid leaching is also used. The exact value of the minerals fed back into the global supply chain is unknown. However, we do know that informal workers are shortchanged. This is because exporters buy recycled minerals like copper at prices well below international market rates. Continually...

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The quiet engine of survival that most people walk past every Saturday On a Saturday morning at Agbogbloshie, a woman sells cooked rice and stew from a plastic table she carries on her head every week. By Sunday evening, she has paid her child’s school fees. At the Tema Station Sunday market, a young man sells phone accessories from a wooden stand that did not exist on Friday.

Walk into any bustling market in Accra—Makola, Kaneshie, Agbogbloshie—and ask a woman selling textiles or a trader with a wooden stall about insurance. A decade ago, you might have received a blank stare or a dismissive wave. Today, many of those same women can tell you about Activ'Lady. They can explain how they pay their premiums in installments via mobile money, how they filed a claim using WhatsApp, and how the company helped them rebuild after a fire or an accident.