SOTRAMI (Peru)
Fairtrade Certified Mining Cooperative
25 November, 2022
by
Desirée Binternagel
The SOTRAMI mining cooperative is located in Santa Filomena, a small village in the Atacama desert in southern Peru. In the 1980s, as a result of an economic crisis, the region was increasingly populated by miners who tried their luck prospecting for gold in abandoned mine shafts.
2004: Santa Filomena is Declared Child Labor Free Zone
2011: First Fairtrade Certified
2004: Santa Filomena is Declared Child Labor Free Zone
2011: First Fairtrade Certified
in Origins
Desirée Binternagel
25 November, 2022