John,

Desperate families are taking some of the biggest tech companies to court
-- over mines that turned into death traps for their children.

They need your help now -- can you chip in to put Apple, Google, and the
rest on trial?



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Thanks for all that you do, 

Vicky and the team at SumOfUs



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Apple’s buying metal from mines where kids are sent to die. 14 desperate
families are now taking the tech giant to court.

This landmark case could spell the end for deadly mines -- and finally
hold companies like Apple accountable.

Can you chip in
$1
to help these families take on the biggest company in the world?

[1]child labor in the D.R. Congo


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John,

Kids are buried alive -- suffocating in collapsed tunnels -- to mine
precious metal for mobiles and laptops.

Now devastated families from the Democratic Republic of Congo are taking
Apple, Google, Microsoft, Dell and Tesla to court in the US.

It won’t bring their children back, or allow those with injuries to walk
again.

But John, if you help fight this court case, it will help these
grieving families -- and it will force huge tech companies to stop buying
metal from death-trap mines.

That’ll put those mines out of business -- and stop any more kids dying
for phone batteries.

Can you chip in
$1
to the fund to put the tech giants on trial?



Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your card.

[ [link removed] ]Yes I can chip in
$1
to stop kids dying in the dark.

Just a kid, Raphael died alone, crushed by rocks. It’s hard to think of
his tears and terror, buried in the dark.

When Raphael’s family could no longer afford to send him to school, he did
what most kids in his village do. Age 12, he went to work at the nearby
cobalt mine for about $1 a day.

In April 2018, he was crouched in a tiny tunnel digging for cobalt, when
the roof collapsed. Sixty-two people died that day.

But if we help their families win this legal case, it will force Apple,
Google, Dell, Microsoft and Tesla to cut their ties with deadly mines --
helping send them out of business, so no more kids die in the dark.



Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your card.

[ [link removed] ]Yes I can chip in
$1
to end deadly cobalt mines.

Apple, Google, Dell, Microsoft and Tesla have hired some of the largest
law firms in the country to fight the claims of the mining victims.

The fourteen families from Democratic Republic of Congo are being helped
by a Congolese professor, a human rights lawyer -- and you!

They’ve filed the legal case. But there’s an urgent need for donations to
pay for:

* an investigator to chase down the secret supply chains.
* experts to prove the companies didn’t have to sacrifice the health and
lives of children, but could have established safe cobalt mines
instead.
* campaigning to keep up the pressure on tech corporations to stop
buying metal from those mines. 

It won’t come cheap. But if enough of us chip in, we can help make sure
the case is watertight and end deadly mines.

We’ve helped communities around the world win legal battles against huge
corporations before. Let’s win this for the family of Raphael and for kids
in danger right now.



Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your card.

[ [link removed] ]Yes I can donate
$1
to stop kids dying in mines.

   

Thanks for all that you do,
Vicky and the team at SumOfUs



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More information:

[ [link removed] ]Top tech firms sued over DR Congo cobalt mining deaths, BBC, 16 Dec
2019

[ [link removed] ]I saw the unbearable grief inflicted on families by cobalt mining. I
pray for change, Guardian, 16 Dec 2019

[ [link removed] ]Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining
death, Guardian, 16 Dec 2019

 

SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy.

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