The snow-white limestone quarries in the Egyptian governorate of El Minya employ workers with only homemade face masks, ordinary sandals and rotary saws adapted for cutting stone. Workers, including both farmers and university graduates, are about to go on strike to complain about low wages ranging from $ 10 to $ 16 a day, inadequate health and safety, and lack of social and health protection despite frequent accidents in the workplace, as a result of which men lose their hands, feet and fingers.
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The number of people working in the limestone quarries of Egypt is uncountable as there are illegal mines employing thousands of workers, including children under 15. Quarry work attracts men who cannot find other employment due to high unemployment rates as a result of the economic and political crisis in Egypt following the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011.
About 45,000 people, including children, are currently working in 1,500 limestone quarries in Egypt.
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