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Rosebel ondersteund Outgrowers project in Brokopondo voor USD 100.000

Boven Het moment waarop de overeenkomst gesloten werd. Vlnr: Hoofdkapitein van Nieuw Lombé Henry Kaffe, General Manager Michiel Fleischeuer en Linus Diko, directeur Bonanza Agro Industries Onder: Voor de ondertekening vond een korte discussie plaatst tussen de afvaardiging van het traditioneel gezag en de GM (l) van Rosebel Gold Mines N.V.

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gemeenschap in de gelegenheid zal stellen om agrarische producten te verbouwen. RGM financiert voor dit project het materiaal dat nodig is voor de agrarische ondernemingen.

Het materiaal bestaat uit walking tractors met implements, motorsprayers, 3Inch diesel-waterpompen, brushcutters, PPE en andere benodigdheden voor een goede start van hun agrarische onderneming.

Dit project is een initiatief van het traditioneel gezagsplatform van de belangengemeenschappen van RGM. Het hoofddoel van dit project is het creëren van lokale landbouwbedrijven om op lange termijn een duurzaam inkomen voor de gemeenschappen in Brokopondo te garanderen. De focus zal

liggen op het transformeren van traditionele planters naar agrarische ondernemers, waarbij wordt gefocust op de productie van gewassen waar een heel grote vraag naar is op de Surinaamse markt.

Dit project is de follow-up van een landbouwbewustzijnsprogramma dat in het eerste kwartaal van 2022 werd geïmplementeerd in de COI’s met steun van RGM. Met dit project voegt RGM waarde toe

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p 9 september 2022 tekende de General Manager van Rosebel Gold Mines N.V. (RGM) een overeenkomst voor het pilot project outgrowers Brokopondo phase-I met het platform van traditionele gezagsdragers van de belangen gemeenschappen van RGM in Brokopondo (de zgn. Communities of Interest, COI’s). Bonanza Agro Industries als coördinator van dit project heeft bij deze gelegenheid de overeenkomst medeondertekend. Met de ondertekening van deze overeenkomst ondersteunt RGM tien (10) boeren uit de gemeenschappen en assisteert bij het opzetten van een agri-business volgens het outgrowers concept waarbij elke boer wederom 3-5 anderen uit hun respectieve

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door: Marijke Agwense

aan het opbouwen van sterke gemeenschapspartnerschappen met de lokale gemeenschappen en tracht het bedrijf een positieve nalatenschap op te bouwen.

De kosten van het project bedragen US$ 110.000 waarvan US$ 10.000 een bijdrage zal zijn van de projectcoördinator die ook een lokaal boerenbedrijf opereert.

Foto: Collectie CRD

Foto: Collectie CRD

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Rosebel contributes USD 100k for Outgrowers project in Brokopondo

Above: The moment when the agreement was concluded. Fltr: Head Captain of Nieuw Lombé Henry Kaffe, General Manager Michiel Fleischeuer and Linus Diko, Director Bonanza Agro Industries.

Below: Before the signing, brief discussions took place between the delegation of the traditional authority and the GM (l) of Rosebel Gold Mines N.V.

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other farmers from their respective communities. RGM will fund farming tools such as walking tractors with implements, motor sprayers, 3 -inch diesel waterpump, brushcutters, PPE and other necessities for a good start of their farm.

This project is an initiative of the traditional authority platform of the COIs of RGM. The main object of this project is to create local farming business to guarantee sustainable income for the communities in Brokopondo on the long term. The focus will be set on transforming traditional farmers into

Photo: Jerry Finisie

n September 9, 2022, Rosebel Gold Mines (RGM) General Manager signed a project agreement with the platform of traditional authority of the Communities Of Interest (COIs) for the pilot outgrowers Brokopondo phase I project.

Bonanza Agro Industries is the coordinator of the project.

Through the signing of this agreement RGM will support ten (10) lead farmers from the host communities RGM works with. This project that will be implemented according to the outgrowers concept, will enable each of the ten lead farmers to accommodate 3-5

agrarian entrepreneurs, projecting on the production of crops demanded by the local market.

This project is the follow up of a districtwide agriculture awareness program that was implemented in the first quarter of 2022 with support

from RGM. With this project RGM is adding value to building strong community partnerships and leaving a positive legacy. The cost of the project is 110k U$ of which 10k U$ will be contributed by the project coordinator who is also a local farmer company.

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Mine Maintenance 3 years LTA-free! by: Gregory Rijssen

n August 17, 2022, the Mine Maintenance Department achieved another milestone. On that historic day, the department was 3 years LTA-free. A fact to be extremely proud of. According to Anup Soebedar, Maintenance Assistant Superintendent, the department uses a simple recipe: "We have an open ear and listen to the employees. We hold them accountable for their behavior and reward exemplary behavior!"

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Anup says that despite this achievement, the department always leaves room to do better. "There is always room for improvement. To maintain this level, you have to constantly put energy into it. We have that energy!" said the Maintenance Assistant Superintendent.

Sisrian Geddeman:

"Rosebel Gold Mines N.V. took away all my study worries"

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Personal development within the program "Within the program, you also get the opportunity to develop yourself further outside of formal education," says Sisrian.

In 2016, the students within the program were given the opportunity to participate in the training project writing. As part of this training, the by: Carol Wens students themselves identified, wrote and presented a project idea. The best project idea Brokopondo Centrum where could win a grant worth USD she also lived. After 5000. Sisrian's ‘cutting and Above: Sisrian after winning best project in 2016. successfully completing the the left, Sharmila Jadnanansing, former Country sewing course’ was chosen as On Manager and on the right, Jerry Finisie, Manager muloschool she received a Community Relations & Development. one of the best Project ideas. scholarship from Rosebel Gold She successfully carried out Mines N.V. (RGM) to continue this project as a scholarship A big thank you to RGM! her studies in Paramaribo. student in the villages "Without this program, I would Sisrian, who was 16 years old Klaaskreek and Brownsweg. probably have to go through at the time, chose the Ewald P. my study years in Paramaribo Meyer Lyceum (Lyco 2).

After Lyceum with a lot of stress. As a Spanish has always been student within this program, I Her first year in Paramaribo as Sisrian's favorite subject since didn't have to think about how a teenager from the district the junior secondery high I would get money each was very challenging.

"Paramaribo was a completely school, which is why she chose month or where I would live. new environment for me that I the Institute for the Training of RGM really took away all my Teachers (IOL) after the study worries and that allowed had to get used to. For Lyceum.

“I want to instill the me to fully concentrate on my example, I now had to take the love I have for Spanish in other studies. In addition, this bus to school, while all those program has contributed a lot years I walked to school in my students as a teacher,” says village," says Sisrian about her Sisrian. And Sisrian has indeed to my personal development," succeeded! From June 22, she says Sisrian. Sisrian is grateful experience in Paramaribo. "I can call herself a Spanish for the program and says a big also got to know my own teacher.

After ten (10) years in thank you to RGM. She responsibility, especially when the RGM scholarship program, expresses the hope that the it comes to budgeting. I Sisrian returns to the district as program will continue, learned to manage the because it is bearing fruit. To monthly allowance I received a Spanish teacher at Mulo Brownsweg.

Sisrian is now 26 all the young people of from RGM carefully," sisrian years old and says Brokopondo Sisrian says Above: Sisrian Geddeman adds. Within the scholarship enthusiastically "I want to "donde hay gana, hay program, RGM also takes care contribute to the development maña", which means 'where of the technical and social s a young girl, Sisrian guidance of the students. "This of the Brokopondo youth and there is a will, there is a way'.

Geddeman grew up in in addition, these students also the Brokopondo district. guidance has given me an have the right to a good In Brokopondo she went to the edge over the other students Spanish teacher". despite all the challenges as a schools O.S. Brokopondo and ‘district child’," says Sisrian.

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