Support the mining camp for women in Kenya

Let's create a safe place for the women behind the gems in your jewelry!

The UN Women Safe Place concept is being used to create the Pilot Mining Camp to benefit the women miners in Taita, Kenya. The women who mine here often leave their families for days on end and live without sanitation or easily accessed water. We see the value in giving safe place for women, water, sanitation and safety equipment. When we ask the women what they wanted for the camp, they answered a "first aid kit." I think the jewelry industry can do that and much more!

Mining camps can be tough places to live. With a mobile pilot shelter, clean water, sanitation, the quality of life and work for the women miners of Voi, Kenya will improve dramatically. The Rotary Club of El Cajon Sunset will process this project as grant with potential match of each donation up to our goal by 100%, meaning that every $1 donated up to our goal of $10,700 will have another $1.00 donated on top of it. Together, we can create a camp and training program for the artisanal miners of Taita, Kenya!

Overview of the project

When at the mine site, the living conditions are not suitable or safe for the women. Their journey starts by leaving their families and children in their faraway residences to live at the mines for two weeks to a month at a time. The mines are located inside the national park and lack water or sanitary necessities. We wouldn't want to stay in these conditions let's ensure that our colleagues don't have to either. We can help improve their lives and their capacity to increase their livelihood through the pilot mining shelter camp.

Specifically, the mining camp will include:

- Safe mobile pilot shelter made from recycled shipping containers

- Water collection and sanitation system

"The Taita mining camp will increase the livelihood of the women miners in Taita. It's safe housing, proper water and sanitation is a basic human rights that they currently lack. Combining this with professional training will enable the women to raise their economic power and trickle down income to improve their community."

- Alaka Lugonzo, Gender and Legal Practitioner in Extractives and Governance, Kenya

Meet Beatres

Beatres is 57 years old and has 7 children. Beatres' husband who was a miner died. Beatres has become a miner to support her family and she has joined the Precious Women's mining co-op. But she does not have enough money for good mining tools. Beatres is struggling, we can help her thrive. Your contribution is genuinely life-changing for the women of Taita, Kenya. On behalf of the miners and their community, we thank you!