12-Hour Workdays for Child Miner in Burkina Faso
Photojournalist Larry C. Price captures the long workday of 9-year-old Karim Sawadogo.
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Photojournalist Larry C. Price captures the long workday of 9-year-old Karim Sawadogo.
A gold rush has brought new opportunities, and challenges, to the desperately poor nation of Burkina Faso in West Africa.
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