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  • Ghanaian men building a volunteer health clinic.
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  • Ghanaian men building a volunteer health clinic.
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  • Ghanaian woman with colorful umbrella walking through her village.
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  • Ghanaian woman with a colorful umbrella walking through her village.
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  • Ghanaian steering a long canoe on Lake Volta.
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  • Resettled people in a community neighboring a gold mine plant a garden for food.
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  • Ghanaians carrying volunteer's supplies.
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  • A Ghanian chief protected by guards with gold handled swords at a festival. He is surrounded by the people of his community.
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  • Resettled families gather in a community neighboring a gold mine in Ghana..
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  • A young woman wanders through a resettlement village where a gold mining company took over the land, then built houses and moved people into the new community. The problem is there is no work, food or wate.
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  • New houses built by Newmont Ghana Gold Limited. Communities of people moved into new homes when the mining company took over land where their villages were located. The struggle is to have work, food and water since they were farmers.
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  • Ghanaian standing in water as others relax in a canoe on shore.
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  • Schoolgirls at a ceremony celebrating the opening of a new clinic.
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  • Schoolgirls at a ceremony celebrating the opening of a new clinic.
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  • Villagers gather to see volunteer nurses and clinic workers.
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  • Young children cry after receiving shots at a clinic.
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  • Newborn in doctor's and nurse's hands.
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  • A woman swoons at a religious ceremony.
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  • Boy prepared for surgery at a volunteer clinic.
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  • Lined up containers wait on a woman working a pump as kids watch.
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  • Tetanus vaccinations in the village of Dambai at a volunteer clinic.
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  • A woman during life-threatening childbirth.
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  • Newborn baby in doctor's hands.
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  • A young teenager stands on a submerged log to help miners sluice for gold in mine tailings at an improvised mine in Ghana.
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  • A teenager works with miners sluicing for gold at an improvised, illegal mine.
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  • Newborn baby and nurse attendant.
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  • Tetanus vaccinations in the village of Dambai at a volunteer clinic.
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  • Taxi driver with bullet scarred stomach from illegal mining violence.
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  • Two midwives help a woman give birth at the Dan Moser Memorial Clinic.
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  • Setting up a health clinic and way station for supplies in Kasoa.
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  • A woman during life-threatening childbirth.
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  • Clinic director readies to examine a child burned by scalding water.
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  • A midwife cleans up a newborn baby girl at a rural clinic.
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  • The hands of a midwife and a newborn baby girl at a rural clinic.
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  • A doctor and a patient at a health clinic.
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  • A painting of gold mining and production hangs on a wall at the mine.
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  • A table stacked with tomatoes and other food items is located outside after surface mining and blasting destroyed a store and many homes in 1986. Residents of Sanso have never been compensated for the damage from the gold mining company.
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  • A Ghanian chief protected by guards with gold handled swords.
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  • Gold from a mine in Ghana is packed for transport by helicopter. Security is high and guards are armed.
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  • Villagers neighboring the Newmont gold mine perform domestic labor.
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  • Illegal miners sort rock while huddled at their shaft on Ashanti Gold land.
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  • Goldbricks from a mine in Ghana are packed and sorted for transport. They export about 500,000 ounces of gold in one mine a year.
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  • Nurse and doctor holding a just born baby.
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  • A woman next to a donated autoclave.
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  • Workers wear protective clothing when handling gold from a mine in Ghana as they pack and sort it for transport. Newmont Ghana gold mine pulls about 500,000 ounces a year from this mine.
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  • Man loading bag of cement onto a truck.
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  • Man holding blue hose, and another handing a tool.
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  • Volunteer doctors preparing for surgery.
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  • Surface mining blasting destroyed many homes in Sanso in 1986, and the responsible gold mining company has not help residents restore their buildings.
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  • Illegal mining in an underground shaft on Ashanti Gold land.
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  • A headlamp illuminates illegal mining in a shaft on Ashanti Gold land in Ghana.
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  • Headlights illuminate the small passage for illegal mining in an underground shaft on Ashanti Gold land.
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  • Headlights illuminate the small passage for illegal mining in an underground shaft on Ashanti Gold land.
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  • Miners wear headlamps to negotiate narrow passages underground in an illegal mine shaft on Ashanti Gold land in Ghana.
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  • Illegal miners scraping for gold on the riverbanks of the Pra River. The ruined landscape causes environmental damage that is not repaired.
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  • Sweat pours down the face of an iIllegal miner scraping for gold on the riverbanks of the Pra River.
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  • Overcome by religious frenzy, men help a woman lying on the ground.
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  • Arriving in Motoka on a ferry ride across Lake Volta.
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  • Illegal miners scraping for gold on the riverbanks of the Pra River outside of Prestea, Ghana, Africa.
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  • Randy Olson, a photographer on assignment for National Geographic at a gold mine in Ghana.
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  • Illegal gold mining on the riverbanks of the Pra River where the landscape is destroyed by crowds digging for precious metal.
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  • Gold miners bathe on the riverbanks of the Pra River. Heavy metals pollute the amalgam pond that they wade and wash in exploring them to high levels of mercury.
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  • Homes damaged and knocked down by surface mining blasting. The gold mining company never compensated the residents from the damage incurred in 1986.
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  • A villager in Ghana who was shot in the leg during a mining protest uses crutches for a wound that has not healed after a year has passed.
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  • Illegal gold mining on the riverbanks of the Pra River. Artisanal miners work on the tailing piles around big industrial mines leaving a ruined landscape.
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  • African guards watch as helicopter takes $7M worth of gold bars out of the Newmont mine in Ghana. old from a mine in Ghana is packed and sorted for transport.
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  • Gold from a mine in Ghana is packed and sorted for transport.
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  • A Ghanian chief is protected by guards with gold handled swords at a festival in Ghana.
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  • Workers shovel and dig in an illegal gold mine on the riverbanks of the Pra River. The landscape is devastated in the process of obtaining the precious metal.
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  • Illegal gold mining on the riverbanks of the Pra River in Ghana. Miners worked in the tailings left by large industrial mines until run out by the military so they moved to riverbanks and work in a ruined landscape.
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  • Nurses attend a patient in a volunteer built clinic.
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  • Illegal gold mining on the riverbanks of the Pra River in Ghana. They worked in the tailings left by large industrial mines until run out by the military so they moved to riverbanks and work in a ruined landscape.
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  • Gold bricks  from a mine in Ghana are packed and sorted for transport under armed guards by helicopter.
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  • Gold from a mine in Ghana is packed into plastic after being sorted for transport.
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  • Man standing under a colorful umbrellas.
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  • Millenium Village, an experimental village run by the United Nations.
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  • A girl sustained a brain injury caused by falling out of bed from the shaking from a  mining blast at a nearby gold mining operation.
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  • A girl burned by scalding water in agony before medical treatment.
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  • A child walks by strange signage on a building in a street scene in Prestea.
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