Fairtrade Gold
WhAT IS Fairtrade Gold?
Fairtrade works with artisanal and small-scale mines to help them improve their pay and working conditions, their health and safety practices, and their environmental protection.
Only once a gold mine meets the strict Fairtrade standards will it become a certified producer of Fairtrade gold.
In addition, Fairtrade has been working with nine pilot groups in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania to achieve Fairtrade certification, bringing much needed hope to the impoverished communities who risk their lives to mine the rich gold seam that runs around Lake Victoria.
Fairtrade gold provides these small-scale miners and their communities with the opportunity for better living and working conditions, ensuring that your engagement ring or wedding rings don't come at the price of human suffering or environmental damage.
Read more: Why choose Fairtrade Gold?
The miners at MACDESA work underground in shifts of twenty days on and ten days off. For those miners who do not live locally, these ten day breaks give them time to travel to see family in different parts of Peru.
Other miners have made their home near the mine site in the village of Cuatro Horas, where rising incomes from Fairtrade have played a major role in local development, resulting in the completion of various major infrastructure and social projects, such as the development of an electrical grid and a water supply network, and the establishment of medical services and schools.
Photographs courtesy of Nigel Wright.
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