AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine has affirmed its status as sustainability champions after sweeping nine (9) awards at the 2024 Sustainability & Social Investment Awards (SSI) held in Accra.
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 feat comes at the heels of a dominant performance in last year’s event where AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine swept seven (7) awards.
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, and Best SSI Team of the Year.
Others are Best Company in Environmental Sustainability project and Best Company in Community Development and Infrastructural projects.
Social Development and Gender Superintendent at the Mine, Mavis Nana Yaa Kyei, received the SSI Women Empowerment Leadership Award.
The awards demonstrate the company’s commitment to innovation, health initiatives, social investment, sustainability, and community development.
It also showcases the company’s unwavering dedication to upholding one of its core values, Sustainability, by positively impacting the communities within its operational areas.
Head of Community Relations for AngloGold Ashanti’s African Business Unit, Emmanuel Baidoo, 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 aimed at promoting sustainability in host communities.
Mr. Baidoo explains that the well-couched processes and interventions are what make the 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”, Mr. Baidoo added.
He explained the Mine is not resting on its oars but remains focused on implementing more of their interventions to benefit residents of their host communities and revamp activities in Obuasi.