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Going for gold In Ghana

The Documentary Podcast

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A Cocoa Farmer's Village

I quit up with crock who a du amo first wife, a duasa also not her real name. I'm 49 and a cocoa farmer. We only harvest cocoa yearly so after harvesting we don't do anything again until the following year most of the men are into gold mining but women here are mostly farmers. Life is difficult with bad roads and light conditions. In this village we really need help. Not sure how it started but I think mining began here with a big company. There used to be cocoa farms at the place they are mining now but they uprooted all the cocoa trees to start mining which posed a major problem for us. Our major problem is that the pits have not

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