Nigeria: Suleja Heroines Who Break Stones for Peanuts

17 September 2019

On a sunny July day in Kwamba, Suleja, Niger State, 12-year-old Rachael smiled shyly with a heavy hammer in her hand. Alongside other children, she used the tool to manually crush stones for sale as gravel.

Rachael said she crushes enough stones daily to fill four 50kg cement bags. The gravel are then sold to builders and contractors who use them for construction.

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