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3/3 Protecting children 🧒 is everyone's responsibility. As a miner, parent, community leader or government official, take action today.
Keep children away from mine sites, support their education and speak out against child labour.
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2/3 ⛏️Mining can expose children to serious risks, including dangerous working conditions, injuries and harmful chemicals such as mercury.
🧒Every child deserves a safe environment, access to education and the opportunity to reach their full potential.
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1/3 🧵On this #WorldDayAgainstChildLabour, @planetGOLD_UG reaffirms its commitment to a responsible artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector where children belong in school, not at mine sites.
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📹Meet Monica, Josephine & Esther, three women miners shaping the future of responsible artisanal & small-scale gold mining in Uganda. With support from the @planetGOLD_UG project, women are advancing leadership & mining practices that protect communities.
youtube.com/watch?v=mq4i7pNi…
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“Réorienter la pratique de l’EMAPE – Mise en œuvre des approches transformatrices promues par le projet planetGOLD” ⛏️👷🏾
À l’occasion de la conférence “Mining the Connections”, une session dédiée au projet planetGOLD a réuni les équipes de Côte d’Ivoire, Guinée et Burkina Faso.
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@planetGOLD_Zim joined the nation in commemorating a belated #WorldHealthDay under the theme:"Together for Health.Stand with Science."
We stand with science every day by tackling a hidden health crisis,mercury use in artisanal gold mining (ASGM).
More👉bit.ly/4xeOoND
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Jun 9
📢We are #hiring!
➡️Junior Program Officer | Ottawa/Montreal, Canada
➡️M&E (Client) Coordinator, K4I | Canada/United States (Remote)
➡️M&E Capacity Building – Implementation Associate, K4I | Remote
Apply: bit.ly/4d3CAFV
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3/3 @planetGOLD_Zim is working with #ASGM communities to reduce #mercury use & adopt cleaner, more efficient mercury free gold recovery methods. Resulting in artisanal small-scale gold mining that works with the environment and not against it.
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2/3 At our stand, Project Manager @nmutonhori highlighted a critical but often overlooked link: climate change & mercury-free gold mining.
"How we mine gold today shapes our climate tomorrow. Mercury-free technologies are not just about safer mining ,they are climate action."
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🧵1/3 On #WorldEnvironmentDay,@planetGOLD_Zim joined the global movement ,celebrating nature & taking urgent action for our planet.
Global theme: "Inspired by Nature. For Climate. For Our Future."
National theme: "A Plastic Free Environment is Possible – Play Your Part."
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The health & safety of miners and their communities remain at the heart of @planetGOLD_UG's work.
@planetGOLD_UG is supported by @theGEF led by @UNEP executed by @IMPACTtransform in partnership with @nemaug & @MEMD_Uganda under Department of Mines.
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From PPE distribution to environmental awareness messages across Kitumbi Kayonza mine site, #WorldEnvironmentDay @planetGOLD_UG reinforced the fact that protecting miners' health goes hand in hand with protecting the environment.
#WED2026
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2/2 Protecting the environment starts with action!
As part of the commemoration, @planetGOLD_UG distributed 100 tree seedlings & led a tree-planting exercise at the mine site, encouraging miners to restore degraded areas and contribute to restoring the ecosystems.
#WED2026
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1/2 To mark #WorldEnvironmentDay, @planetGOLD_UG joined artisanal & small-scale gold miners at Kitumbi Kayonza mine site to promote safer, & environmentally responsible mining practices. Miners were sensitised on site rehabilitation, PPE use, & mercury-free gold processing.
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✔️ Provide training in prospecting to minimize impacts on ecosystems
✔️ Work with miners to develop renewable energy alternatives to power their operations and to minimize deforestation
#MakeMercuryHistory #ResponsibleMining #EthicalGold #ResponsibleSourcing #ASGM #MAPE #EMAPE
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✔️ Work with mining communities to design and deploy processing systems that eliminate mercury and other chemical discharges
✔️ Promote, design and implement mining and tailings management to minimize environmental footprint and impacts on deforestation, biodiversity & pollution
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As communities across the globe commemorate #WorldEnvironmentDay amid record-breaking demand for gold, it provides an opportunity to reflect on some of the practical steps that can be taken to deploy more environmentally responsible artisanal and small-scale gold mining. 🧵👇
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📣Are you looking to join an agile team making a difference in the artisanal & small-scale gold mining sector in Uganda? Check out our:
Jurisdiction and Landscape Analysis (JA/LA) Consultant role.
Apply via the link below! impacttransform.org/en/about…
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#Hiring
This internship offers a graduate or early-career professional the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in project delivery, administration, finance, and operations within a donor-funded project environment. Apply today!
📷Join our team! We are hiring a Project Support Intern to support finance, admin, and project functions at Planet-GOLD Zimbabwe . A great chance to gain real-world experience in a donor-funded setting.
See the advert here 📷 bit.ly/49z4ZS4 for details on how to apply.
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Through awareness raising @planetGOLD_Zim is helping miners like Mavies better understand the risks of mercury and access safer alternatives, while reducing mercury use across Zimbabwe's artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector. @planetGOLD_org @theGEF @UNEP
𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐲-𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐝.
Mavies Gwiriko, 32, handles mercury with bare hands at Museveni Mine, Bindura. She does not know it's poison,damaging her brain, kidneys, and lungs.
Read full story
👉healthtimes.co.zw/2026/05/27… @minamataMEA @theGEF
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