Community
Land Access
- SRL is committed to a resettlement policy designed to improve the local conditions and economic opportunities in affected communities. We will provide sufficient financial support to assure that every resettled household maintains an equivalent or better standard of living and income earning capacity as they had prior to the resettlement. We will proactively solicit input from affected individuals and other interested stakeholders through our public consultation programme in order to integrate stakeholder inputs into the resettlement planning and decision-making process.
- Our Community Development Department ensures that dialogue is maintained with the communities in our mining areas and that programmes, agreed with our local community partners, are implemented and monitored. Our payments of surface rent to local communities and into the agricultural development fund for our area have helped to stimulate the local economy with the population of our mining area growing from 5,000 people to over 100,000 people since we restarted operations in 2006.
Sierra Rutile Foundation
The SRL Foundation was registered in Freetown in 2006 as a non-profit organization for the establishment of sustainable socio-economic development in the rutile and bauxite mining chiefdoms.
The Foundation was officially launched by His Excellency the Vice President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Mr. Solomon E. Berewa, on Thursday, January 18, 2007 and has, under its terms of reference, approved one project.
The SRL Foundation was established to finance sustainable community development initiatives that will improve the socio-economic and infrastructural conditions in the eight rutile and bauxite mining chiefdoms of Imperi, Jong and Kpanda Kemo in the Bonthe District; Upper Banta, Lower Banta, Dasse and Bagruwa in the Moyamba District and Bumpe Ngao in the Bo District, and any other chiefdoms that SRL/SML mining activities may affect in due course.
Terms of reference
Terms of reference of the SRL foundation