As Botswana’s largest private-sector employer, Debswana Diamond Company is both a strategic partner and a primary implementer of Vision 2036, the country’s roadmap for the future.

‘There’s a sense of pride I have in my journey. Despite my name, I had nothing handed to me. I did it all on my own.’

Dr. Savji Dholakia’s story is an inspiration to how the diamond businesses can be a force for positive and catalytic transformation, combatting challenges such as climate change, global warming and water crises.

As it has in South Africa and Botswana, Grandview Klein has seen its role in Namibia as extending beyond the industrial and economic life of the country, and into its social fabric

In August 2022 residents of the Gujarati village of Dudhala stopped paying electricity bills, and they would not need to do so for the next 25 years. And because the solar power was renewable, nature benefitted at the same time.

In 2010 the corporation established the Rosy Blue Foundation, as a vehicle for improving and enhancing the community service commitment of its group of companies.

We are a community, with common interests, ethics and principles, despite the long distances that may separate us, writes Chris Zoettl Jr. “My goal in serving the younger members of the diamond industry is to nurture this community, enabling each one of us to appreciate that we are part of something greater than ourselves.”

At the community level, Dimexon Diamonds provides funding and support for educational institutes and employee-managed volunteer teaching programs. To improve workplace and living standards for its employees, it provides both environmental protection and health care awareness programs.

The act of associating itself with ECOSOC and the Millennium Development Goals, and since 2015 the Sustainable Development Goals, has meant a great deal more than just responding to criticism from human rights groups. What CIBJO essentially did was to publicly commit the international jewelry industry, to work towards the fulfilment of the United Nations’ development agenda.

Although the celebrated jewelry chain Tiffany & Co. became a member of the World Diamond Council in 2000, its strategic commitment to responsible sourcing can be traced back to 1995, when it decided to advocate against a proposed gold mine that threatened the fragile ecosystem of the Yellowstone National Park in the United States.

The original objective of the group was to establish a movement within the international diamond trade that would replenish and sustain the future and leadership of the business community. But an invitation extended by De Beers in 2019 to the Young Diamantaires to visit the Venetia Mine in South Africa’s Limpopo Province had the effect of broadening the group’s perspective and areas of activity.

As Chow Tai Fook approaches the 100th year since its founding, it has announced what it refers to as its Centennial Commitment.

What was once known as Ashaktashram Hospital is today the Smt Rasilaben Sevantilal Shah Venus Hospital, named for the spouse of the founder of one of India’s largest diamond companies, Venus Jewel.

When the company is Signet Jewelers Limited, the world’s largest diamond jewelry retailer, the concept of community encompasses the globe. The firm operates approximately 3,300 stores in the United States, Canada, Ireland and the British Channel Islands, primarily under the name brands of Kay Jewelers, Zales, Jared, H.Samuel, Ernest Jones, Peoples Jewellers and Piercing Pagoda.

GJEPC understood that it needed to take measures that would secure both its current and future workforces. This it believed could be done by developing an industry-wide social security blanket, in the form of healthcare, education and more.

The mission of the Kharyskhal Rehabilitation Center is to restore a semblance of normalcy for young people whose lives have been shattered by domestic abuse, alcoholic parents and deprivation, a problem common to any urban area in the world.

In 2015, AWDC began a cooperation with CAP Conseil, a Belgian sustainable development consulting company, with the initial goal of establishing a jewelry project, called “My Fair Diamond,” whose artisanally-mined stones would be “ethical” and traceable.

Rough diamonds purchased by GemFair and exported from Sierra Leone are KP-certified, and eligible to be traded legally in the major markets.