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Anglogold Ashanti Obuasi Mine tops 2024 Sustainability & Social Investment Awards

 AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine has confirmed its status as sustainability champions by sweeping nine awards, the most won by a company at the 2024 Sustainability & Social Investment Awards (SSI) held at Movenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra.

The feat comes on the heels of a dominant performance in last year's event where AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine swept seven awards.

The SSI Awards organised by Ianmatsun Global Services recognizes the most outstanding sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives in the country and beyond as well as the best teams and individuals who brought them to life.

This year's event, which was the 8th edition, was under the theme "Climate Action Now: Accelerating Decarbonization and Building Resilience".

The awards won by AngloGold Ashanti on the night include SSI Company of the Year, Best Company in Women Empowerment (project), SSI Company of the Year ( Environment), Best Company in Economic Empowerment, Best company in Stakeholder Engagement, SSI Company of the year and Best SSI Team of the Year.

The rest are Best Company in Environmental Sustainability project and Best Company in Community Development and Infrastructural projects.  Additionally, Mavis Nana Yaa Kyei, the Social Development and Gender Superintendent of AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine, received the SSI Women Empowerment Leadership Award.

The awards demonstrate AngloGold Ashanti’s commitment to innovation, health initiatives, social investment, sustainability, and community development.

It also showcases the company's unwavering commitment to upholding one of its core values, Sustainability, by positively impacting the communities in which it operates.

Speaking to the media after the awards, Emmanuel Baidoo, Head of Community Relations for AngloGold Ashanti’s African Business Unit dedicated the awards to the entire AngloGold Ashanti family emphasizing the need to sustain the high level of teamwork needed to achieve more successes.

He attributed the Obuasi Mine’s successes at the SSI awards event since 2020 to the design and implementation of their programs and interventions in the communities they operate in.

Baidoo mentioned that the well thought-out processes and how the interventions are packaged are what makes AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine unique.

"Our 10- year Socioeconomic development plan encompasses impact driven designs and interventions, co- created with our stakeholders. We brainstorm and find solutions to problems that we identify in our communities", Baidoo added.

He said the nine awards won on the night reflects years of consistency and underscored that Obuasi Mine is not resting on their oars but remain increasingly focused on implementing their interventions to benefit residents of their host communities.

He mentioned that as a mining company,  such awards confirms that the company’s  efforts do not go unnoticed. This he said, motivates AngloGold Ashanti to do more for their host communities.

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