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Brilliant Earth Donates to Stop Child Labor in Mines
By B. Earth | January 30, 2009
Brilliant Earth is proud to announce our recent donation to the Diamond Development Initiative’s Tukudimuna Child Labor pilot program. The program works to get Congolese children out of diamond mines and into higher education and better economic opportunities. Our donation of $10,000 will sponsor the enrollment of 108 children, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the Tukudimuna Project for one full year.
Lack of regulation, harsh labor conditions, and poor wages make child labor a regular practice in the diamond and gold industry. The DDI’s efforts are focused on removing 700 child miners from the artisanal diamond mines in the Mbuji-Mayi region of the DRC. The program is designed not only to help these specific children, but also to create sustainable and replicable methodologies to end child mining. The initiative aims to strengthen communities in the DRC, as well as to increase understanding of the dynamics of child mining.
Brilliant Earth will continue to dedicate 5% of our profits to communities impacted by the jewelry trade as part of our ongoing non-profit fund. We want to thank all of you for helping us contribute to these important efforts to improve the social and economic stability for artisanal diamond miners and their communities.
Topics: Company News, Conflict Diamond Issues, Giving Back, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
March 30th, 2010 at 5:18 am
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