Liz Ninahuanca Trinidad (28), member of the 'Central Nacional de la Mujer Minera' (CNMM) a national organisation which supports subcontracted workers in Peru's mining industry, talks to her cat while cooking vegetables in her kitchen. Her son Carlos (9) sits in the hallway under a poster of Jesus Christ. The mining village of Morococha is 4,600 meters above sea level and produces silver, copper, lead and zinc. 6,500 inhabitants work for the American mining company Pan American Silver and the Austrian company Austria Duvaz.
