There is an increasingly favorable trend in the market to consider the origin or origin of the articles we consume.
More and more, we like to bet on organic products and manufactured in an ethical way with the rights of people.
That is very good and we believe it is very necessary but, have we ever considered things from the other side? What do those people who play life think to get the raw material of many of the things we will use in our day to day? How do they live it?
From the hand of Jesús G. Pastor and his magnificent work, we present the case of VO workersIndonesian Lcán of Kawah Ijen.
http://www.unfotografo.es/http://www.unfotografo.es/2016/el-infierno-en-la-tierra-kawah-ijen-fotoperiodismo
The Kawah Ijen volcano is one of the stratovolcanes that populate the Ijen plateau, in Indonesia.
During the day, dozens of workers exploit their crater as sulfur mine, carry an average of 60-80 kilos of sulfur (0.05cts of € per kilo) per trip, about 3 a day.
We can find this sulfur in fertilizers for vegetables, tires, matches, white sugar (yes, sugar), soap, anti-fastest, gunpowder, paintings, plastics, batteries, pesticides, medications, food preservatives, paper ... is everywhere.
Something that we have so at your fingertips and that seems so harmless to brings both environmental and health devastating consequences for these workers.
In situations like this, which we all put our hair, our response/reaction usually to be, "poor people", we tend to victimize them to the point of depersonifying them.
However, your answer is sharp:
“Tourists seem horrible because you look with your eyes, you think we are slaves. Do not be wrong, we know what we do, we choose to work here and here we will continue while the mine continue, the body endures and the volcano wants. ”
This has not left us indifferent, it makes us go further, it makes us rethink the approach or prism from which until now we observed it.
These people, with their names and surnames, choose this work among others because it is the best paid, with it guarantee their future and that of their families.
They are fully aware of the risks they assume.
From here, that we want to move, wake up and shake consciences, we have a series of questions, perhaps obvious or perhaps not ...
Should we change our way of seeing these people? Should they go from victims to heroes? How necessary are these heroes today? And how far are we willing to arrive so that they are not?
With topics like this we invite constant and continuous reflection, because we believe that only then is evolution possible, exchanging opinions, learning from each other and thus contributing our granite of sand to build a better, egalitarian world and society , in which the dignity of people is not measured based on the risks assumed in their work or in their day to day to get a family.
And you do you think?
