Stone Miners Risk Their Lives for Just Re 1, Help Rana Restore Their Dignity
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“I have daughters…one of them is disabled. I can’t make ends meet with the Rs.1.50 I get per stone. So I bring my children to the mines. I know I’m stealing their childhood, but what choice do I have?”- a widow
The dust from the stones scars the lungs forever and worst of all - it has no cure
“I’m unfit to work…the disease has eaten me from inside. But I’m drowning in debt. If I don’t work, we don’t eat.” - Gita, another widow suffering from sil!cosis that is slowly killing her.
The story of Budhpura is not an isolated one but echoes across the mineral-rich lands of Rajasthan. Mining is the only source of income but it’s also a death sentence. Children here are too weak from malnutrition and tobacco addiction. They are pulled into the same mines that took their fathers. Their futures are crushed under the same stones they lift every day.
“We don’t have a voice. But even when we do, nobody listens.”- Vishnu, a mine worker
Rana is working for lives that deserve more than Rs.1.50 per stone
In Rajasthan’s mines, workers earn just Rs. 1.50 per stone—risking their lives for almost nothing. Rana, who grew up around mines, was devastated when he saw their suffering. “It felt like watching people walk into their graves,” he says. Through the Mine Labour Protection Campaign Trust (MLPC), he now supports over 7,000 silicosis-affected miners with oxygen banks, ambulances, and telemedicine. He’s helping widows start small businesses and pushing for basic rights like restrooms and daycare at mines. For Rana, it’s about dignity—for lives worth far more than a rupee.
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“I want these people to live with dignity and their children dream beyond these mines because no child should inherit a life of debt and disease.” - Rana says with conviction
Today, Rana is raising funds not for a cause, but for human lives. Lives buried in dust, silicosis, and silence. Lives that deserve to go to school, breathe clean air, and live without fear.
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