 My father was a migrant mine worker. He went to South Africa for the first time in 1927 before the establishment of the borders between the two countries, Mozambique and South Africa. I just followed his path. I joined mining industry in 1990 and I worked in the mines for seven years. There are many connections between employment and migration. When we look at a number of migrants that are there across the world, we see that most of them actually move to find employment or to work. When there was a war in Mozambique, it was not possible to produce. There were no agricultural activities. The only thing the people that could do was to migrate to Zimbabwe and South Africa alternatively to get the job and see if they can feed back the families. So I was one of those who migrated. But after the war, I decided to come back. During the time I've been working in the mining industry, I realized that as Mozambique migrant mine workers, we do not have pension funds. We do not contribute legally for pension funds. Sometimes we are facing different laws from the countries of origin and the working country. There are no proper channels to send back the miners if you are being deducted from the country where you are working. Together with other friends, we tried to find out what would be the solution for getting ourselves forming an association that would deal for the interests and rights of migrant mine workers in Mozambique. Voices from the underground project really came about being pushed and promoted through the excellent work that was being done by Mozesh and his team to promote and really raise awareness of this challenge that was faced by Mozambique and mine workers which doesn't just impact individual mine workers but has an enormous impact on their family and on the communities both of origin and of destination. In the voices from underground, the main object was a capacity building and to bring the mine workers to understand their rights and where to go to claim for their social security benefits. As far as I know, mining associations serve as a link between the boss and the government and the workers themselves. They are very important in the dissemination of information. As we can see, the mining class is vast. There are many miners. A disturbed information can reach several miners in a short time and create disturbances among them. So, the negotiations are much more to ensure that information reaches in a useful and correct way. The voices from underground project is the project that has helped a lot the association, the mining communities and the region. We worked to find out what were the main challenges that the mine workers' families were facing. There were messages that were explaining what funds are there in South Africa and each fund, what is there for, that has helped a lot for the mine workers to know the different funds that are there in South Africa and their rights. Migrant workers can make an important contribution to sustainable development and to economic growth but only if their human rights and their rights as workers are protected, only if they can access decent work and work under safe working conditions. Migration to South Africa has helped a lot the country and the migrants themselves. The mine workers managed to educate their children through their migration results. The remittances that are sent by the migrant workers are very significant in the GDP of the country so it's quite significant for our country.