This month’s Fast Company Magazine featured an article about the diamond hunting going on in Sierra Leone. According to the article, $15 million has been spent by the World Diamond Council to counter fallout from the film, Blood Diamond. In 2005 a man by the name of Martin Rapaport set up four cooperatives in the Kono region of Sierra Leone. More than 240 miners work at these cooperatives which has found $3,000 worth of diamonds. Rapaport has also come up with the idea to offer fair trade diamonds. 
Will people be willing to pay more for fair trade diamonds? I definitely would if it meant that miners were paid the third of the purchase price that Rapaport has proposed.
I also came across Green Diamonds, an organization that supports organic agriculture and restored mining grounds in Koidu, Kono.
Speaking of diamonds, I know that the jewelry stores are swamped today! I’ll be sitting on the couch with a box of chocolates and watching The Notebook for the first time...
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