Diamond Development Initiative

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DDI is partnering with Global Giving on a special campaign to provide cooperatives of artisanal and small-scale diamond miners the knowledge and resources they need to work together to secure a sustainable, brighter future for themselves and their families.

The campaign is part of DDI's new Power of Diamonds Initiative, which works to harness the capacity of diamonds to provide a way out of poverty in countries with alluvial mining, by empowering cooperatives of artisanal and small-scale miners.

MABOF needs your help.

The first beneficiary of the campaign is the MABOF cooperative. Founded in 1995, MABOF is a joint artisanal diamond-mining venture of two communities located in the Kono District of Sierra Leone with a combined population of 1800 people.

The campaign aims to provide MABOF the means to operate legally and maximize the success of ethical, sustainable mining of diamonds.

You can support them with as little as $33, and follow their progress as they work to achieve sustainability.

Join the mine to market program for responsible diamond sourcing (https://myfairdiamond.com/)

In 2018, the Belgian diamond trader Cap Source together with the support of the AWDC launched a fully traceable and responsibly sourced diamond jewelry collection My Fair Diamondusing artisanal diamonds from Sierra Leone. These diamond mines were certified via the Maendeleo Diamond Standards (MDS), implemented by the Canadian NGO Diamond Development Initiative (DDI).

Inspired by this ambitious project, the AWDC decided to start a similar project in Guinea, one of the partnering countries of the Belgian governmental cooperation and an important diamond-producing country.

If you are interested in this project, would like to learn more and wish to potentially partner in the sales of these responsibly sourced rough diamonds, please direct your reply to: [email protected]