Just a quick post to update you all that the launch of Fairtrade Fairmined Gold is hitting the press in the UK today big time. The Guardian, The Daily Mail and The Independent are just some of the papers covering the story.  I have posted the articles onto my Facebook page, so if you link

Fairtrade and Fairmined gold arrives Valentine’s Day 2011 Giving gold jewellery is about love, romance and beauty. But all too often, how gold is mined is not a pretty story. That’s why the world’s first Fairtrade and Fairmined gold from South America will go on sale in jewellery shops on Valentine’s Day. This groundbreaking move

Sierra Leone is apparently one of the poorest countries in the world. Definitions of poverty of course vary dramatically from the rather spurious measure of GDP per capita (gross domestic product per head) of which Sierra Leone is ranked 175 out of 182 at $804 USD income per head per annum, to the rather romantic