Why I Don't Wear Gold Or Diamonds

I don't wear gold or diamonds because men are worked in slave like conditions. Some of them live in dormitories and rarely see their families. 24 tons of diamonds are dug from the earth every year. This is a multibillion-dollar business.

The ads say that diamonds are forever, and a girl's best friend, but the business is built on the lives of Africans in Sierra Leone who are maimed and killed if they don't put out enough work.

While DeBeers, the king pin of the diamond industry, spends 56.5 million dollars a year on advertising, The Africans earn less than 1 dollar a day , panning for the diamonds barefoot in the river beds.

With the 3200 miners missing in South Africa this week, I pray they will be able to rescue them all. There has been an 11 year long war for control of the diamonds in Sierra Leone.