Lumiere Charity: Children Suffering Tortures due to Lead Poisoning

Children blinded, paralyzed and left with learning disabilities struggle in Bagega, Nigeria.

Through the dedicated efforts of Doctors without Borders, Nigeria's northern Zamfara state government and Moscow, Idaho-based TerraGraphics International Foundation the children and inhabitants of Bagega are being helped.

The cleanup, or remediation of Bagega from the lead contamination was completed in September 2013.

The children and families struggle with nutritional problems and diseases in this area.

The area was so dangerously contaminated by lead poisoning from artisinal mining that goats and cows were killed by drinking from the reservoir waters.

A long road lies ahead; children with severe neurological damage and health problems, a grieving community who lost many children to mortality.

Gold-mining, the main source of income for the residents of Bagega, proved not a safe source for them.

Farming is difficult due to the erratic rainfall.

Other sources of income are desperately needed.

In the spirit of Lumiere, is there anything you can do?

Nigeria; Doctors treat lead-poisoned children

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/nigeria-doctors-treating-lead-poisoned-children

Terragraphics International

http://terragraphicsinternational.org/

Zamfara State, Nigeria

http://terragraphicsinternational.org/projects/zamfara-state-nigeria/

Dalnegorsk and Rudnaya Pristan, Primorski, Russia