Presenters: Sarah Guy & Laura Hillis
In January, Sarah and Laura were part of a group of mostly grade 12 students, accompanied by 2 teachers and 2 parents, who spent a week in El Salvador. While there they had the opportunity to spend three days in a village whose people would be directly affected by the plans of mining companies to mine gold in El Salvador. Among other things, gold mining requires 900,000 litres of water a day – water that would not be available to the villagers.
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