The race towards economic growth is often uncompromising for those that must suffer the consequences. That’s what I thought when I went to Shanxi, china to investigate working conditions for workers in coal mines.
It isn’t unusual that miners are working around 8 hours a day without eating, for that hard work they only get around 100 Euros a month! That´s barley enough to make the life go around for the miners. Think yourself, you are a miner with a wife and two children, and you are the only one who makes any money at all so the entire family has to chare the money. Would you be able to handle that? Don’t think so. Chinese mines are the most dangerous mines in the world, every day accidents occurs following with at least 20 killed. After an accident an inspector is coming, he is supposed to investigate what have happened and if the mine activity can continue or if the mine is too dangerous. But the problem is that these inspectors are always being paid off by the mine owner so the mine can go back to normal in a while. And every time I´m about to find something out someone is escorting me to the owner of the mine and the authority escort me to the nearest train going back to Beijing. This means that they really don’t want the trout to come up to the surface.
But that isn’t everything, on my way to a coal mine I meet an older lady, picking up something. It appears to be pieces of coal that have fallen of trucks, and she is using it to heat up her house and for cooking. She doesn’t even know the danger thanks to the toxic levels in the coal rests. According to her the environmental bureau should have informed her if there was any dangerous with using the remains of the coal.
As you hopefully have understood, this is not to be accepted. China must do something about this, firstly the police force have to get better education and maybe a higher salaries, something to make them stop taking bribes and such. And they also need to keep an eye on the mine owners and have a better conversation with the mine workers so they won´t work illegal.
lördag 24 april 2010
fredag 19 mars 2010
Children of the civil war
Children of the civil war
1. One unique thing about the home front letters is that they didn’t really know what was going on, they only knew that they had to hide. Whit a constant fear of being hit by shells, there was no other option than hiding in cellars all day long. It was nearly impossible to live a normal life, and that’s the situation for the frontline children to. They lived in a constant threat by the enemy just like those at home. But in the beginning they had a kind of glorifying expectations whit fighting for their country, they didn’t understood what they were facing. At Christmas time soldiers
2. The majority of the stories which contains information about the weapons make you realise that they must have been pretty old. Emma Leconte also writes “Hurrah! Old Abe has been assassinated!” about Abraham Lincoln and he was president during the war.
3. One document really made an impact on me, document C (front line). I can just imagine the sorrow that letter brings with it. The fact of being informed about ones son’s death by a letter must be horrible. It must have been inconceivably to bee informed that way.
4. I’ve learned and got an better understanding of which affect the war had to the children. For example, in order to get food, people at home had to rob food stores and other kinds of markets for necessary things to be able to survive, and that’s just so hard to imagine when you have been raised in a country like peaceful Sweden. But I have also learned to read a text, trying to find out different kind of things like, who wrote the text and why did he/she wrote it? I’ve simply learned how to read a text with critical eyes.
1. One unique thing about the home front letters is that they didn’t really know what was going on, they only knew that they had to hide. Whit a constant fear of being hit by shells, there was no other option than hiding in cellars all day long. It was nearly impossible to live a normal life, and that’s the situation for the frontline children to. They lived in a constant threat by the enemy just like those at home. But in the beginning they had a kind of glorifying expectations whit fighting for their country, they didn’t understood what they were facing. At Christmas time soldiers
2. The majority of the stories which contains information about the weapons make you realise that they must have been pretty old. Emma Leconte also writes “Hurrah! Old Abe has been assassinated!” about Abraham Lincoln and he was president during the war.
3. One document really made an impact on me, document C (front line). I can just imagine the sorrow that letter brings with it. The fact of being informed about ones son’s death by a letter must be horrible. It must have been inconceivably to bee informed that way.
4. I’ve learned and got an better understanding of which affect the war had to the children. For example, in order to get food, people at home had to rob food stores and other kinds of markets for necessary things to be able to survive, and that’s just so hard to imagine when you have been raised in a country like peaceful Sweden. But I have also learned to read a text, trying to find out different kind of things like, who wrote the text and why did he/she wrote it? I’ve simply learned how to read a text with critical eyes.
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