Moyo Gemstones

Moyo Gemstones is a gemstone program with female artisanal gem miners in Tanzania’s Umba Valley and Kenya's Taita Taveta County. The effort is building a scalable, artisanal and small-scale mined colored stone sourcing program, to assure responsibly produced, ASM-mined rubies, sapphires, garnets, and tourmaline, from miner to market. The program empowers women miners to work safely, mine better, improve financial security, and create stable, equitable markets for fair trade. In addition to Pact, the program’s partners include the Tanzanian Women Miners Association, Association of Women in Extractives and Energy Kenya, Nineteen48, ANZA Gems, and blockchain provider Everledger. Moyo means "heart" in Swahili. Learn more at moyogems.com.