Who's responsible for this?
This is what is going on, we should be real about what people are dealing with daily so we can begin to help change this.
But it is to raise awareness about Congo! 🇨🇩
There are children, men and women dying here, having fled from the mineral rich areas just so we can get Christmas gifts. So you can get a new phone for your child, for their birthday, so you can buy a new tablet or headphones for your sister for eid etc. let us think of the Congolese. 8-10 million dead in the genocide, in the last 20 years. 48 women raped per hour, 7 million displaced, dally massacres, 85% without clean water to drink but 25% of Africas fresh water is in the Great Lakes region of Congo, 70% of of the population are under 30, 50% of the population are under 15, 27 million are facing starvation, the gdp is $550 annually per person, imagine working all month for $45 for life. The camps are horrible, no water, sanitation, medical care, food, light, the tents get flooded everyday, when the sun is hot it’s so hot in these plastics tents everyday. As for the mining, well there is no protective equipment, most people get cancer, the waters surrounding the mines are all poisoned, many are full with children, it’s actually horrible. This is all for tech, they're taking 150,000 tonnes of cobalt out of Congo annually, that is set to rise to 250,000 tonnes each year by 2025 as the demand for electric vehicles soars. That’s just cobalt, they also taking copper, lithium, wolframite, tungsten, gold, diamonds, coltan, cassiterite, niobium, uranium, etc.