Kids are buried alive -- suffocating in
collapsed tunnels -- to mine precious metal for
mobiles and laptops.
Now devastated families from the
Democratic Republic of Congo are taking Apple, Google,
Microsoft, Dell and Tesla to court in the US.
It won’t bring their children back, or allow those with injuries
to walk again.
But Vladimir, if you help fight this court case, it will
help these grieving families -- and it will force huge tech
companies to stop buying metal from death-trap mines.
That’ll put those mines out of business -- and stop any
more kids dying for phone batteries.
Can you chip in $1 to the fund to put the tech giants on
trial?
Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your
card.
Yes
I can chip in $1 to stop kids dying in the dark.
Just a kid, Raphael died alone, crushed by
rocks. It’s hard to think of his tears and terror,
buried in the dark.
When Raphael’s family could no longer afford to send him to
school, he did what most kids in his village do. Age 12, he
went to work at the nearby cobalt mine for about $1 a
day.
In April 2018, he was crouched in a tiny tunnel digging for
cobalt, when the roof collapsed. Sixty-two people
died that day.
But if we help their families win this legal case, it
will force Apple, Google, Dell, Microsoft and Tesla to cut their
ties with deadly mines -- helping send
them out of business, so no more kids die in the dark.
Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your
card.
Yes
I can chip in $1 to end deadly cobalt mines.
Apple, Google, Dell, Microsoft and Tesla have hired some of the
largest law firms in the country to fight the claims of the mining
victims.
The fourteen families from Democratic Republic of Congo are being
helped by a Congolese professor, a human rights lawyer -- and
you!
They’ve filed the legal case. But there’s an urgent need
for donations to pay for:
- an investigator to chase down the secret supply
chains.
- experts to prove the companies didn’t have to
sacrifice the health and lives of children, but could
have established safe cobalt mines instead.
- campaigning to keep up the pressure on tech corporations to
stop buying metal from those mines.
It won’t come cheap. But if enough of us chip in, we can help
make sure the case is watertight and end deadly mines.
We’ve helped communities around the world win legal battles
against huge corporations before. Let’s win this for the
family of Raphael and for kids in danger right
now.
Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your
card.
Yes
I can donate $1 to stop kids dying in mines.