Concord Times (Freetown)
July 16, 2007
Isatu Kamara looks on as her three young children navigate muddy pathways at Zone 3/7 Congo Bridge Mine in Kono, carrying shovels and lugging heavy loads of gravel to be sifted for diamonds.
"It's an issue of poverty. The people are so poor after the war that they cannot actually afford to send their kids to school." "There are thousands of children working in mines across the country, many of whom don't go to school - a violation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which states that even in wartime, all children have the right to receive an education."
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