In The Story of the Fairy Foxes with Wings of the Night Mists, a Ugandan fairytale is adapted as we raise awareness about the Gold Kacha project jeweller Greg Valerio is staging in Busia district, Uganda, installing Mercury free gold extractor machines on behalf of Environmental Women for Action and Development.
Emma kindly modelled for this photoshoot, with ethical jewellery by Lily Flo Jewellery, and textile couture created using reclaimed materials in a photoshoot to highlight the prevalence of Mercury and Cyanide which have a toxic effect on the nervous system, in the mining extraction process, generational child labour, and the 150 million artisanal miners across the world, many who only receive a subsistent wage. The jewellery industry still remains largely unregulated - we ask for people to ask at the counter whether their jewellery is certified Fairtrade, or offers a traceable and transparent supply chain?