DIAMOND EMPOWERMENT FUND
ANNOUNCES HONOREES FOR
2ND ANNUAL “GOOD
AWARDS” JANUARY 10, 2013
Editor's Note: DEF recently announced that Noella Coursaris Musunka, international model and founder of the Georges Malaika Foundation would also be among the honorees at the "Good Awards" - info here.
Global luxury jeweler Tiffany
& Co. and Leo Schachter Diamonds will be honored for global leadership in helping
empower people in Africa, at the second annual GOOD Awards on January 10, 2013.
The GOOD Awards, established by the Diamond
Empowerment Fund in 2012, are the highest awards to recognize individuals and
corporations in the diamond and jewelry industry for outstanding leadership in
the areas of good corporate citizenship, sustainability, and promoting
opportunity in Africa.
Tiffany & Co., a pillar of the diamond industry,
has been in the forefront of promoting business practices and programs that
benefit communities in which diamonds are sourced. Tiffany’s work in Botswana
and other diamond producing countries highlights one of the many ways the company
demonstrates accountability through best business practices resulting in
employment, infrastructure improvements, and ultimately the empowerment of
people in that region.
Leo Schachter Diamonds was one of the first diamond
companies to establish a cutting factory in Botswana, employing hundreds of
local Batswana. Additionally, Elliot Tannenbaum, principal of Leo Schachter
Diamonds, in partnership with the government of Botswana, helped to establish
the Botswana Top Achievers Program, a DEF beneficiary, that funds top students
from the nation to study at the university of their choice worldwide.
Additional honorees will be announced soon. For more
information on tickets, journal ads and sponsorship packages please visit
www.goodawards.org.
About
the Diamond Empowerment Fund
The Diamond
Empowerment Fund is a New York based non-profit organization (EIN# 20-5967103) that
raises money
to fund education initiatives in African diamond-producing nations. Its
beneficiaries include: CIDA City Campus,
South Africa’s first non-profit university to offer a four-year business
degree, the African Leadership Academy, a
university preparatory school in Johannesburg, South Africa, founded on the
belief that ethical leadership is the key to sustainable development on the
continent and drawing students from all 54 countries in Africa, and the Botswana Top Achievers program that provides the top high
school students countrywide the opportunity to study at a university of their
choice worldwide. Graduates then return to Botswana to contribute to its
economic, social and political development.
www.diamondempowerment.org
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