Would You Risk Your Life For Your Earning...?

"For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable." 

Every one wants to work at a place which obviously pays them enough to survive and enjoy a luxurious life.Apart from payment they love the comfortable work place and am sure none of us sitting here and reading this deals with the 2 jobs I have mentioned here.I found them really dangerous.

The Honey Hunters of Nepal….!

 High above where people generally love to enjoy the rope ways and risky adventure fun games, in the Himalayan foothills of Central Nepal, the Gurung (tribes people of Nepal  Honey hunters gather just 2 times in a year risking their lives in order to harvest honey from the world’s largest honeybee count area. Risking their lives they hang on the rope ladders using the long sticks which is also known as Tangos to knock the honeycomb off the cliff-side .Which will get into their baskets and then slowly and steadily they bring them to the ground level. Not to mention this ancient skill really requires years of practice and has been passed through traditions and generations. But as the decades increase, the technology advances, climatic changes, commercial interests, the world becomes more techno-addict there comes a drastic decline in both, the count of honey bees as well as the hunters.  

The Sulphur Miners in East Java-Ijen Volcano…!

Java's Sulphur miners are always set to gather the chunks of yellow Sulphur located next to the steaming, acidic volcano crater lake. The men hold their breaths and run into the clouds of hydrogen sulphide and Sulphur dioxide, gases that burn the eyes and throat. If you have ever studied chemistry during your school I am sure you have true idea how harmful and dangerous these chemicals are to one’s life. They grab as much Sulphur as they can carry before returning to relative safety away from the lake. The miners gag, choke, and spit before repeating the process again and again. The life risking job they do by gathering the sulphur is then used to bleach sugar, make matches, and vulcanize rubber. The miners are paid $10 to $15 a day i.e (600INR min,as per recent rates), with some extra income coming from posing for photographs taken by curious tourists well away from the poisonous gas. Gloves and gas masks are affordable luxury items.

If you talk about India there are again many in the list beginning from the factories making crackers, pistols, E-waste recycler, Plastic recycling to what not .

Well, in the end the main motto of this article was to understand the value of Human Life. Neither take yours as granted nor others’. Always try your best to safe it ,it may be yours ,it may be your friends or some unknown stranger but after all every individual is a human ….. Let’s not allow HUMANITY lose its value even though the people around are losing the moral values….!

“If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.”

Let’s Take Care…….. and make the world a better place….