Sust-ASM @sustasm

COVID-19 is underscoring the vulnerable lives of Kenya's artisanal gemstone miners theconversation.com/covid-19-is-un… via @TC_Africa

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Day 5: #VoicesFromBelow Exhibition continues this week. Watch the Exhibition feature in NottsTV. youtu.be/vZcEosFVZzI

A group of students left a community-centric sustainability map, with a focus on different groups working with the community to highlight respect. @sustasm #VoicesFromBelow

Further interaction with two haikus, both extolling justice, harmony and cultural autonomy as methods for sustainability. @sustasm #VoicesFromBelow

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Day 4: Did you know that 60% of gemstones mined in Taita Taveta was by the artisanal miners? Come interact with the exhibition and share your thoughts on how mining can be made more sustainable. #VoicesFromBelow @jnmuthuri @UoNPressOffice @NottmUniBschool

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Day 3: Visitors to the #VoicesFromBelow exhibition @NottmUniBschool express their thoughts and experiences of the artefacts and stories of gemstones miners in Taita Taveta. Particularly methodologies that work @NVBorderlines. Opens until 6th March @UoNPressOffice @jnmuthuri

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Great partners to work with. Thank you @NVBorderlines for making the #VoicesFromBelow Exhibition an exciting reality. @jnmuthuri @NUBS_ICCSR @NottmUniBschool

New Vic Borderlines @NVBorderlines

6 years ago

Great partners to work with. Thank you @NVBorderlines for making the #VoicesFromBelow Exhibition an exciting reality. @jnmuthuri @NUBS_ICCSR @NottmUniBschool

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The ideas discussed and shared with invitees to the UK-Kenya Vice Chancellors meeting convened by the Kenya High Commission London last spring 2019 birthed the Sust-ASM project. Thank you @MEsipisu, Education Attache for the great support. #VoicesFromBelow #PartnershipsThatWork

Amb. Manoah Esipisu EBS @MEsipisu

6 years ago

The ideas discussed and shared with invitees to the UK-Kenya Vice Chancellors meeting convened by the Kenya High Commission London last spring 2019 birthed the Sust-ASM project. Thank you @MEsipisu, Education Attache for the great support. #VoicesFromBelow #PartnershipsThatWork

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Thank you to all who graced this beautiful occasion. You made it happen. #VoicesFromBelow @jnmuthuri @NUBS_ICCSR @UoNSustain @NottmUniBschool

Dr Todd Landman @DrToddLandman

6 years ago

Thank you to all who graced this beautiful occasion. You made it happen. #VoicesFromBelow @jnmuthuri @NUBS_ICCSR @UoNSustain @NottmUniBschool

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New exhibition shows the dangers faced by gemstone miners in #kenya who have also co-created the displays on show @NottmUniBschool with academics from @UniofNottingham & @NewVicTheatre - aim is to improve their working conditions. Find out more bit.ly/2uq5ayx

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The youngest visitor at the launch of the "Voices From Below" exhibition wrote this great poem about his experience today. @UoNPressOffice @NottmUniBschool @jnmuthuri

Ambassador Manoah Esipisu officially opens the 'Voices from Below' Exhibition that tells stories of artisanal and small-scale miners towards a more sustainable mining futures @UoNPressOffice @NUBS_ICCSR @UoNSustain

Women artisanal miners faces numerous socio-economic and cultural challenges. Traditional beliefs and cultural norms, discrimination, gendered stereotypes, etc hampers their meaningful participation in mining.

The Sust-ASM project website has gone live today: sustainable-asm.com. Keep checking for new things we will be posting. @jnmuthuri @NottmUniBschool #ResponsibleNUBS

A snapshot of a life of artisanal miners in Taita Taveta. We are working with these hardworking miners to co-create a more sustainable mining future. Video by Mr Senja Changanya (aka Professor of Stones) in a green top. @jnmuthuri @UniofNottingham @NUBS_ICCSR @NottmUniBschool

Hon Andrew Mwadime pointing out some challenges ASM face in Taita Taveta: eg, poverty, low socioeconomic status of miners, lack of equipment & mining machinery, lack of/access to finance, conflict among mining stakeholders, miners' low knowledge of marketing & value addition.

Pre-conference session underway discussing the challenges of Artisanal and Small-Scale miners of Taita Taveta at the second Biennial CEMEREM Conference "Sustainable Development in the Extractive Industry in Africa" by our partners Taita Taveta University. @jnmuthuri

Nottingham University Business School led by @jnmuthuri partnering with Taita Taveta University on a GCRF funded project on Sustainable Artisanal and Small Scale Mining in Kenya. To work with gemstone miners and stakeholders in Taita Taveta County of Kenya.