“THE DREAM CAME TRUE! - Oro Verde’s Green Gold reaches the red carpet in Hollywood and is recognised by Greg Valerio at the launch of Fairtrade Gold
Oro Verde, 2009 SEED Gold Winner, which was created by and for small-scale miners in the Chocó region (Colombia) has now reached international recognition and its impacts is growing.
It was green gold from the Oro Verde mines that Livia Firth wore on the red carpet, when her husband, Colin, accepted his Academy Award for Best Actor at the Oscars 2011 ceremony. This first ever Fairtrade Fairmined Ecological gold jewellery was created with Oro Verde gold and designed and hand-made by goldsmith Anna Loucah in collaboration with CRED Jewellery. (full article here).
Greg Valerio, Fair Trade and human rights campaigner, and founder of both CRED Jewellery and the CRED Foundation, also recognised Oro Verde’s invaluable role at the launch of Fairtrade Gold and testified that ‘Oro Verde put soul back into Gold’ . (view the full video below or click here).















