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  • A UN medical center in the serbian enclave in Kosovo.  This is the only health center providing for the serbian population in the enclave. The services provided are few and the equipment is outdated and primitive.  They only have one blood bank given by Russia.  It is supported by Greece and Russia funding under the wings of the UN.
    serbianenclave_ 04.jpg
  • Large groups of coal miners live in the proximity of the mines.  They live together in a small space sharing all the amenities. Yushe Coal Mine, illegal coal mine on the Laoying Mountain.
    cinzia_chinacoalminers016.jpg
  • There are a lot of women working in coal mining overground in China. They are not allowed underground due to superstitious belief that they would bring bad luck. Their tasks are equal to men.  Overground they dug coal and carry to refineries. Wangjizhai, South West  China.
    cinzia_chinacoalminers027.jpg
  • China is one of the largest producers of coal in the world, but it has also one of the worse recorded mining conditions claiming thousands of lives every year.  To make matters worse, illegal coal mining has increased over the years putting the coal miners' lives at greater risks.  Lan Ba Coal Mine on the Laoying Mountain is an example of one of the many illegal coal mines.  Safety measures are no-existing; broken rails, only one exit and entry point and no protective clothing or equipment to name a few.
    cinzia_chinacoaminers024.jpg
  • Overground coal is extracted and carried into wicker backets to the refinery.  Men and women carry up to 50kg of coal on their back and they are paid by the amount of backets.
    cinzia_chinacoalminers023.jpg
  • Women are not allowed to go down the caves because of superstition so they work on surface mining only.  Their work varies from digging to carrying coal and does not differ from that of men.
    cinzia_chinacoalminers021.jpg
  • Many of the villagers of Wangjiazhai work with coal from selling to refining, digging and collecting.  Their homes and lifestyle are quite poor and coal seems to be part of it from being a source of income to be is used for heating and cooking. Children help their parents in collecting coal.
    cinzia_chinacoalminers030.jpg
  • During my time in Kosovo, one of the widows invited me to live with her and her children. This is M. who lives with her children in Mitrovice. Her husband was killed during the war.
    cinzia_widowsofwar015.jpg
  • China is one of the largest producer of coal in the world, but it has also one of the worse recorded mining conditions. To make matters worse, illegal coal mining has increased over the years making coal miners lives at even more risks. Lan Ba Coal Mine on the Laoying mountain is an example of one of the illegal coal mines. The health and safety measures in the illegal coal mines are almost no-existing.
    cinzia_chinacoalminers033.jpg
  • Large groups of coal miners live in the same accommodation in the proximity of the mines.  They share all the amenities. Yushe Coal Mine, illegal coal mine on the Laoying Mountain.
    cinzia_chinacoalminers014.jpg
  • Lan Ba Coal Mine on the Laoying mountain in South West China is an illegal coal mine. Normally, these are run by a business man in complicity with a local sheriff. Illegal coal mines are often situated in the inner parts of mountains and very small. The miners are often recruited among migrant workers with a farming background.
    cinzia_coalminerschina_002.jpg
  • Lan Ba Coal Mine on the Laoying mountain. Illegal coal mine. It is a small coal mine owned by a private individual. A coal mine at work. the trolley is slided down on the rail into the tunnel.
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  • A UN health medical in the serbian enclave in Kosovo.  This is the only pregnancy scanner in the enclave and the only maternity clinic.
    serbianenclave_ 09.jpg
  • Entire families live and work in coal mining. Often they live in proximity of the mines.  Children of coal miners since early age help out.  Zhi Du coal mine.  This is a legal coal mine.
    cinzia_chinacoalminers07.jpg
  • Wu Ci Re, coal miner sitting on the doorstep of a wooden room that he shares with a group of coal miners.  The room is the only space they have to live in and it is situated outside the mine.  Yushe Coal Mine, illegal coal mine on the Laoying Mountain.
    cinzia_chinacoalminers018.jpg
  • A coal miner working overground digs and carries coal in wicker buckets. Wangjiazhai, China
    cinzia_chinacoalminers.jpg
  • Lan Ba Coal Mine on the Laoying Mountains in South West China.  An illegal coal mine normally run by a business man in complicity with the local sheriff.  Illegal coal mines are generally situated in the inner parts of mountains and very small.  If accidents occur they are simply shut and covered as if they never existed.  In coal miners run illegally accidents occur more frequently because health and safety measures are ignored.  Just the bare fact that these mines run on just one point of entrance and exit makes them extremely dangerous because if an accident occurs close to the shaft there is no passage to escape from.  However, the economic boom of the recent years in China has seen a huge migration for work particularly from rural areas because of the enormous decline in farming.  Many desperate people leave their homes searching for work and accepting any terms of employment.
    cinzia_chinacoal_miners09.jpg
  • Zhi Du Coal Mine, Laoyshing mountains.  This is a legal coal mine.  Workers are registered and do enjoy better working conditions.  Two coal miners resting.
    cinzia_chinacoalminers031.jpg
  • For the illegal coal miners their accommodation in very poor and lacks of basic standards. The workers co-habit in one room. Yushe Coal Mine, Laoying Mountains, China.
    cd_coalminerschina_013.jpg
  • Widows of war in Kosovo.  After the war, some of villages like Meje have no men left.  Many widows have no means of sustainment.  Ngos assisted the widows in rebuilding their homes.  However, the Ngos support has diminuished to null after they have been moved to  Iraq and Afghanistan.  This decision has left the widows in unfinished homes and no one to turn to for any support.
    cinzia_widowsofwar035.jpg
  • Widows of war in Kosovo.  After the war, some of villages like Meje have no men left.  Many widows have no means of sustainment.  Ngos assisted the widows in rebuilding their homes.  However, the Ngos support has diminuished to null after they have been moved to  Iraq and Afghanistan.  This decision has left the widows in unfinished homes and no one to turn to for any support.
    cinzia_widowsofwar013.jpg
  • Widows of war in Kosovo.  After the war, some of villages like Meje have no men left.  Many widows have no means of sustainment.  Ngos assisted the widows in rebuilding their homes.  However, the Ngos support has diminuished to null after they have been moved to  Iraq and Afghanistan.  This decision has left the widows in unfinished homes and no one to turn to for any support.
    cinzia_widowsofwar012.jpg
  • Women are not allowed to go down the caves because of superstition so they work on surface mining only.  Their work varies from digging to carrying coal and does not differ from that of men.
    cinzia_chinacoalminers047.jpg
  • Many of the villagers of Wangjiazhai work with coal from selling to refining, digging and collecting.  Their homes and lifestyle are quite poor and coal seems to be part of it from being a source of income to be is used for heating and cooking.
    cinzia_chinacoalminers022.jpg
  • Surface mining from an open cast mining covers large areas of the village of Wangjiazhai.  Coal is extracted and carried into wicker buckets to the refinery.  Men and women carry up to 50kg of coal on their back and they are paid by the amount of buckets.
    cinzia_chinacoalminers020.jpg
  • The village of Wangjiazhai has a coal refinery where many of its inhabitants work.  The air is filled with the greyness of coal.  When i look at this picture i always feel as being the end of something.
    cinzia_chinacoalminers019.jpg
  • Normally large groups of coal miners live in the same place in the proximity of the mines.  They live together sharing all the amenities. .Laoying mountains, Yushe Coal Mine.
    cinzia_chinacoalminers017.jpg
  • Large groups of coal miners live in the proximity of the mines.  They live together in a small space sharing all the amenities. Yushe Coal Mine, illegal coal mine on the Laoying Mountain.
    cinzia_chinacoalminers016.jpg
  • Lan Ba Coal Mine on the Laoying mountain in South West China is an illegal coal mine. They are able to operate because of the complicity with a local sheriff.  Illegal coal mines are often situated in the inner parts of mountains and very small.  If accidents occur they are simply shut and covered as if they never existed.. In coal miners run illegaly accidents occur  frequently because health and safety measures are ignored.  Just the bare fact that these mines are run on just one point of entrance and exit makes them extremely dangerous because if an accident occurs close to the shaft there is no passage to escape from.
    cinzia_chinacoalminers015.jpg
  • Widows of war in Kosovo.  After the war, some of villages like Meje have no men left.  Many widows have no means of sustainment.  Ngos assisted the widows in rebuilding their homes.  However, the Ngos support has diminuished to null after they have been moved to  Iraq and Afghanistan.  This decision has left the widows in unfinished homes and no one to turn to for any support.
    cinzia_widowsofwar034.jpg