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      <image:caption>Greg meeting with a victim of the diamond wars in Kono District, Sierra Leone in 2011.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The first Oro Verde gold bullion I brought back from Colombia in 2005. This gold sparked the Fairtrade Gold initiative.</image:caption>
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