How children end up exploited in Namayingo gold pits

I watched as the child miners laboured in silence. Looking severely malnourished, they dug and pounded through rocks, roots and earth crust with feeble limbs. I picked a random crust and jested that I had found gold. Some children paused and mockingly laughed at me.

At the mining sites, pit owners, middlemen and supervisors have enabled the system by allowing children to work by assigning them tasks like washing, carrying and sorting soil.