Struggles to get children out of labour into schools in Bukina Faso

According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), just two-fifths of children in Burkina Faso attend school and the quality of the education they receive is variable with overcrowding and poor conditions common.
The country's Ministry of Social Action is aiming to get 80% of children working in mining back into education by opening schools next to mines, promoting enrolment and offering vocational training.
Two other young mine workers, Amy, 15, and her 14-year-old sister work close to the two young boys.

"We both come on one bike. It takes more than an hour. I pedal and when I can't do it anymore, my sister takes over," said Amy.
From about 7am, around 1000 people begin to descend into the vast crater that is their workplace - mostly  wearing rubber thongs or flimsy sandals.
Many of them are children whose hands are badly lacerated by the stone that they extract and is used in the construction of roads and houses. None wear gloves for their arduous work.
Working eight hours a day, six or seven days a week, they carry trays laden with stones on their heads which they then attempt to sell for 300 CFA Francs (50 US cents). They can expect to earn up to $2 a day.
According to the ENTE, one quarter of child labourers are engaged in dangerous work like mining.
"Do you have medication? It was the hammer..." said Nemata, a 12-year-old, whose finger had gone visibly purple following an accident.
Boureima Koumbem, a doctor and consultant at the CHU Yalgado hospital in Ouagadougou warns that aside from visible injuries, children and adults working in the granite mines are also particularly susceptible to respiratory illnesses.
"They are exposed to pneumoconiosis, their lungs are invaded by mineral dust. These are silent diseases. These people are under-oxygenated throughout their lives - sometimes without even knowing it," he said.