Sierra Leone: American Woodie: Turning a Diamond Mine into a Humanitarian Gem

Sep 19, 2018 | Arkansas Money and Politics
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Woodie Butler runs and operates American Woodie Diamond Co., the world’s first and only e-commerce and jewelry store that provides customers with video, pictures and GPS locations for each diamond his company mines or buys in the bush of Sierra Leone to ensure the diamond has been ethically sourced. Aside from being one of the few direct source diamond miners in the industry, Butler’s humanitarian missions set him apart from the rest, where a percentage of each diamond bought from his company goes back into the community from where the diamond came.