I went to the most DANGEROUS slum in Freetown, Sierra Leone (CHILD LABOR) 🇸🇱

everybody only one meal per day okay so no breakfast no breakfast okay no coffee this is what you use for cleaning yeah it looks very green yeah yeah in the rainy season lots of people just get this stuff oh okay because because the water destroys yeah necessarily every what what a good way to start this video good evening from one of the most dangerous slums in Freetown Sierra Leone where I'm with my friend over there who's going to show me around because it's actually very difficult here you just hold the camera and swim around but this video is not going to be about the dangers of being in this part of town it's actually going to be about the lives how people live here and the struggles so I hope this is going to be an eye-opening experience hope you enjoyed the video can you see your house from here yeah yeah any house yeah it's over there okay okay so the first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna get the water as you can see there is no pumping system going up and down so it's hard to get the water up and the only way to get the water is to to take it okay so we're gonna go to his house we're gonna take what we call no buckets okay what he said and then we're going to go and fetch the water and bring them back to the house don't laugh at me I'm not struggling thank you foreign [Applause] it's windy oh this is your house yeah okay okay too I recognize it now Okay so very technical operation okay so this is where we're gonna put the water only one okay you don't need two and it's what's the distance distance yeah okay you don't think I can handle it okay he's laughing at me okay are you gonna try yeah I'm still not sure exactly where we're gonna get the water from but he said it's somewhere maybe over there but I have to say we have a pretty nice view from here foreign [Music] [Music] the way I'm gonna have you know this one this is very interesting system without the water gun never seen this before is he it's not easy it's not easy right now let's go to the this one is the mine where most of the men here are working cutting stones and this is where we're gonna go next and see how the people work there yeah this is how this is how we prepare our food this is a cool pot okay don't be cool here I'll make it fair these are from yeah these are a scrap metal for me it's television because this is very interesting because this is from the TVs laptops and everything okay okay yeah this is from a freezer yeah okay so nothing goes to waste here everything's reused okay and how many a day do you make ten ten a day yeah okay as you can see okay okay so he makes them and then you sell them okay and you sell them here or you have to go to the market in Freetown in the market okay that's very hard foreign here so what most of these men do is they go to one of these mines there as you can see there's one up there and then they call the stone they break them into tiny parts and then they go down in the town and then they sell them for rebuilding purposes or whatever and one of them told me actually that if you have like a huge bucket I'm not sure how much you can sell them for about 90 which is maybe two or three Euros I'm not sure exactly and that's basically a day's work and as you can imagine these conditions are not the easiest like it's not fun but yeah let's go there and see what they feel about it hopefully I can film it's not easy is full of water over here yeah okay if we cannot walk easily like soon everywhere here and this is the water that you use and for taking for cleaning for everything okay as you can see yeah it's not a lot now yeah it's very dry but this is the end right now of the uh dry season okay so it's not yeah okay maybe in three months man yeah maybe in the next month okay and this is what you use for cleaning yeah why is it very clean it's not it looks very green yeah small holes too okay they're now looking for gold no okay for water okay only looking for water yeah pure water yeah okay so this is why they dig these holes here I see you see because this one is too dirty so they dig here to get to get a clean one to get it anymore yeah I can see that woman right there is also digging crazy have you dug here to get water yeah okay which one which spot yeah there we go over there there is the best spot yeah okay as you can see oh yeah it's much clean water no when it leaves in a few times yeah come clean okay okay see I see yeah it's much different than the other one but it's not good for drinking just for washing yeah okay all right let's go up there okay and behind the lake is basically the site where after they collect the Rocks they have fallen there they are taken here and then they're broken into different smaller rocks to be sold later this one crazy conditions how many hours do you think they work here okay in the morning okay that is seven to eight okay the work starts yeah till evening okay and how much money do you think they make in one day when it worked like this yeah each one is ten thousand that's like yeah maybe 30 cents in euros oh hey I know you ah so this one is ten thousand if you make the if you feel this okay thank you oh man that's very tough this is how to go out all right let's go we've got a beautiful view from the entire area from here oh man you cannot fall down from here okay so this is to heat it to the fire yeah okay I see yes all right let's investigate [Applause] is the camera clean here yeah you just want to see the fire if I can go up yeah okay this is oh okay and now this is the spot where the fire initially was and this is where he's gonna Hammer now yeah okay and he's having here the other spot is also warming there yeah okay okay he said if the stone goes down he walked out goes down yeah when it's there okay send him down okay yeah okay and then women shouldn't collect them and then someone okay and how does he make money if someone else take the rocks for him yeah and then they take the Rock and the others make the money how he gets paid because the others will take the Rock and they will tell them but how do you get paid how people know which rock you brought down your money now for you yes anyway I pull go down it's for him it's for him his wife and children will take him yes he took it down there yes ah so your wife and your children are waiting there yeah yeah ah okay okay so if you bring one down they know it's from you yeah okay okay anyone go down okay okay is how you lived if I don't get this I never get it for it without this armor there is no food for him okay without the hammer yeah of course it's the most important one because with the hammer he gets he gets all the Rocks basically and his wife and children are the one who break the Rocks also will just collect them yeah does can you ask him if he has to break the Rocks later no look the two partitions almost five partition okay sit beside you and watch sports now okay so the steps are he breaks the rocks from here yeah and then they fall down or down the wife collects them for him and then he you go down later you break them and then your wife and children they sell them yeah and they take them and then they send them okay well how many hours a day do you work no one Falls I mean or how many stones do you cut yourself for the day for 24 hours for day if you get something like 50 pounds yeah the final just show you down there yes you get 50 pounds okay and how much again for ten thousand ten thousand okay so he makes 500 000 a day yeah okay yeah it's hard work yeah [Applause] okay let's keep walking let's go up and see what the other guys on the other side are doing as well they're all pretty much doing the same thing but they all work individually so each man is for himself and each of them finds a spot and then they basically start hammering and we're just gonna go around I don't know maybe we see something different on the other side or at least enjoy the view it's very beautiful from here oh wow from the other side this is where the other guy here were shopping the rocks that we just talked to [Applause] looks Wild so this shop right here is of course and it's going to show me around what he does for living he works in welding it's too loud I'm not sure you can hear me but this is what he was supposed to do today [Applause] foreign [Music] I hope they're not angry at me though okay and he took the day after she showed me around because it's too dangerous for me to walk you around a lot without camp with the camera and he took the day off but now he has to go back to work so I'm gonna stick around and stay with him for a bit and then we go back to the up there and then we'll show you more the real life here baby monkey the monkey the one the monkey monkey smoking thank you I stayed there is anything he takes care of him yeah yeah he likes you for father [Applause] oh [Applause] he is basically the dead of this monkey I want to see this in Sierra Leone no one else is going to show you this on YouTube please subscribe so now I'm gonna show you around inside one of the houses here let's see what inside one of their phones look like shoes off okay yeah and you just keep it here it doesn't go bad okay and this is the room and this is yeah for you for your wife you don't you don't spend the day here you just sleep here it's just for sleeping okay and this is the TV okay does it work you have like a dish that you use with us oh it's DVD so it's recorded okay ah okay you have movies yeah okay what movies do you watch and on all the rooms are the same it's all just for sleeping okay right let's go seeing how they make their food now which he told me they're prepared right now so this is how okay and this is the rice that you're making guys okay when you told me that you have like only one meal per day okay so no breakfast no breakfast okay no coffee okay no I couldn't live okay this is the rice and it's cooking ah okay it's hot yeah okay and the other the other one was the sauce for the rice a little bit interesting and you eat this with the rice yeah yeah okay can I try later yeah okay I'm very sorry this is going to be you later dinner time okay and this is what do you have basically for dinner every day yeah okay how often do you have the fish every day also the fish is every day yeah yeah okay okay I hope you enjoyed the house tour but now we're gonna go back to the guy and buy the pot from him is he still there yeah okay it's still working even late in the afternoon [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] hey hi I'm back it's coming he's coming yeah okay which one do you think is the best the best one yeah she is she needs one thing over yeah okay like what like it flips like a cover okay how many ashes get our whole idea yeah it falls down yeah okay okay okay okay I see yeah this one's interesting yeah this used to be a computer computer yeah a monitors laptop exactly and it's winter yeah hey I'm back yeah I want to buy one he's the same guy from earlier yeah yeah okay I told you I'll come back okay bye there are you I'm here 50 50. yeah do you think that's a good price okay okay let's go there okay my phone let's go see the others which one do you think is better yeah it's strong better than this okay this is stronger yeah okay and do you have another shop right there okay [Applause] foreign okay the first step is Mark the size all right I apologize [Music] [Music] thank you as you saw there if you live here you don't have a lot of options when it comes to things to do if you want to make money so one of the options is well most people here option for is work in the mines and they break rocks all day which is super tiring for not a lot of money but some people if you have the ability or the talent for it you can open your own shop either you can do welding or as we saw now you can even make some crafts and build something and this is how people here try and get a body which is not a lot easy and other than that there's not a lot of things to do if you want to find a different kind of job you have to go down The Village and look for something else but it's very hard to find something here foreign foreign

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Length: 28min 50sec (1730 seconds)

Published: Thu May 04 2023