HakiMadini Tanzania

HakiMadini is a non-government organization (NGO) which works in advancing the rights of marginalized communities through policy reforms, development projects, research and education while directly engaging policy makers, artisanal and small-scale miners, and mining affected communities and positively impacting the livelihoods, health and wellbeing of the communities including women and non-mining land users. The organization started in the late 1990’s as an activist group in Mirerani, a Tanzanite mining area in Northern Tanzania, and registered as a not-for-profit organization with the name Tanzania Mine Workers Development Organization (TMWDO). In 2010 TMWDO was changed to HakiMadini where Haki means Rights and Madini means Minerals. For more than ten years HakiMadini has been working in more than ten (10) mining regions of Tanzania (Geita, Arusha, Mara, Manyara, Tanga, Singida, Shinyanga, Dodoma, Mbeya and Songwe).