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Nightline Reports on CARE's Work Combating Child Mine Labor

Click photo to view an enlarged version (Rick Perera/CARE 2005)
(Rick Perera/CARE 2005)
Few young lives are as hard as those of the child miners of Potosi, Bolivia, where children as young as 10 toil under extremely dangerous conditions.

CARE works to combat hazardous child labor by bringing educational opportunity and hope to the children of Potosi – and empowering their mothers, many of them widows.

Click photo to view an enlarged version (Rick Perera/CARE 2005)
(Rick Perera/CARE 2005)
ABC News Nightline recently traveled to Bolivia to document child mine labor and CARE's work against it. The story features an interview with CARE child labor expert John Trew.

Watch the Nightline video preview and read:

View the Nightline photos:
Inside the Mountain that Eats Men

Read CARE's special report on child labor:
Caution-Children at Work: Galvanizing Communities to End Child Labor


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