An 81-year-old woman stone crusher of Kanyama Compound in Lusaka is lost for words to explain how she has suffered quarrying limestone for over 15 years to earn a living.
Dailess Tembo, a widow and grandmother of six, has lamented how she has continued to crush stones even in her old age.
This is despite many organisations promising to better her life.
And Association of Zambian Women in Mining and Small Scale Mining Association of Zambia has regretted that women have been relegated to stone crushing without graduating.
By Tito Kalama