Greetings! Diamonds for Peace has published the 5th issue of the newsletter “The Journey.” The main contents are as follows: Featured article “The Cooperative in Weasua Receives Full-fledged Status.” Strengthening the Skills Necessary to Manage Cooperative and Associated Projects Beekeeping – a Lucrative Side Business for Artisanal Diamond Workers!?- Project…
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Diamonds for Peace in collaboration with the Congo Basin Conservation Society Network (CBCS-Network) assisted 20 refugees and host families with food and cash who escaped from Goma for the volcano eruption.
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Greetings! Diamonds for Peace has published the 3rd issue of the newsletter “The Journey.” The main contents are as follows: – Featured article “Meet Victoria, a Female Artisanal Diamond Digger in Liberia” – The essay contest in Japan on the movie “Voices from the Mine” – Sourced with Love Campaign…
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The gemstones at charity jewelry sold by R ethical are sourced from the Republic of Malawi, a country located in the southeast of Africa and situated more than 10 kilometers from Japan. We interviewed Ms. Mai Suzuki, a board member of Diamonds for Peace Liberia, about the background of gemstone…
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DePaul University, an accredited university in Chicago, hosted Diamonds for Peace founder Chie Murakami as a featured guest speaker on 28th October 2019. Chie presented DFP’s work in Liberia to students in DePaul’s Climate Change course. Chie explained that there is a high level of environmental degradation associated with diamond…
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Greetings! Diamonds for Peace (DFP) publishes the newsletter “The Journey” to share the latest information, progress, plan and challenges with its supporters. I’m pleased to announce that we have published vol.2 last month. The digital version of The Journey is now available online. You can download it from: http://diamondsforpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The-Journey2.pdf We’d…
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Founder and director of Diamonds for Peace (DFP), Chie Murakami, delivered a lecture on pursuing a global career at Tamagawa Gakuen High School on 14 February 2019 in Tokyo. The global career course invites practitioners working for international organization as guest speakers so that the high school students can…
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Chie Murakami, founder and director general of Diamonds for Peace (DFP) delivered a lecture titled “Sustainable Supply Chain of Diamonds to be Constructed by ALL” at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo on 10 January 2019. She started by saying that the engagement ring presented by her husband-to-be jolted her…
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Over the last few years, “blockchain” has been a buzz word in the world. People in Japan tend to think it as crypto currency like Bitcoin only. However, the blockchain is useful in many ways. What is blockchain technology? “The blockchain is an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that…
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Diamonds for Peace (DFP) will develop many programs to alleviate artisanal diamond miners and diggers poverty by introducing fair-trade diamond principles internationally. Our plan of developing and conducting experimentally the first program, the team building training program has been accepted and awarded by The Body Shop Japan Fund. The aim…
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