ASIA

Asia • Jewelry • The Starfish Project

The Starfish Project is a social enterprise with a holistic care program that cares for women escaping human trafficking and exploitation in Asia. At Starfish Project women and girls experience freedom, establish independence and develop careers. We have employed and trained over 160 women and served thousands more through our community outreach.

Asia • Handbags • Springsations

Springsations is a social enterprise in the Heart of Asia under the Forever Love Organization which impacts the lives of single moms and women in need. China holds the highest rate of suicide among women in the world. Many women and children from broken homes are targeted for prostitution and trafficking. Most women struggle with depression, alcoholism, and suicide for a lack of anyone or anywhere to turn.

Springsations is working to change that by offering single moms and women in need shelter, dignified employment, and a community where they can thrive. All women who come through our doors receive on the job training, one-on-one counseling, encouragement, shelter and childcare while earning a salary and preparing for their future.

Cambodia • Jewelry, Shirts & Kimonos • Agape International Missions & Moxie Designs

Agape International Missions (AIM) helps rescue, care and restore young women from human trafficking. AIM partnered with 3 Strands Shop in 2011 to help provide sustainable jobs for these young women, enabling them to reintegrate into their community with honor and dignity. In addition to providing employment for survivors, through the sale of every products, funds are raised to help empower and employ young women so that they may have a future that is full of hope.

The red seed or bead on the 3 Strands jewelry comes from the sandalwood tree, native to Cambodia. Sandalwood trees produce colorless pods that eventually dry up and fall to the ground. But inside these dried pods are beautiful, glossy, red seeds. To our artisans and survivors, the red seeds represent the beauty inside every survivor, and those waiting to be rescued. Our 3 Strands collection features products with a red bead or red mark symbolizing our story.

India • Leather goods • The Loyal Workshop

Quality leather goods crafted in the red-light district of Kolkata, India by artisans who have said “good-bye” to sexual exploitation. The Workshop is Fair Trade certified ensuring that all artisans receive a good wage in addition to dignified work environment and a voice in their work collective. All leather is ethically sourced, veg-tanned. You can see the quality is high when you look at the immaculate hand stitching, the beautiful packaging, and feel the love crafted into each leather product.

India • Jewelry • Purpose Jewelry

Purpose Jewelry is the collection of jewelry hand hammered and crafted jewelry by survivors of traumatic exploitation in India. Women find training, comfort, healing and companionship in Mumbai - one of 5 International Sanctuary sites.

India/Africa • Fabric goods • sewing new futures

SNF provides work training, medical health programs and education to women who have survived sex trafficking in various nations. Their focus on sustainability drives them to utilize fabrics that are sourced from sources that are conscious of the environment in many ways.

India • Jewelry • The Didi Jewelry project

Didi Means “Sister” in Hindi. The Didi Jewelry Project helps women in India create the lives they deserve through meaningful employment.

The Didi Jewelry Project provides you, the consumer, with the opportunity to purchase unique handcrafted jewelry made by women in India who are affected by HIV/AIDS. Your purchase can help your sisters in India create the lives they deserve.

Nepal • Glass Bead Bracelets • Nepal Mission

Nepalese artisans are the creators of our beautiful glass beaded bracelets, colored by rich cultural heritage. When Noble Venture first started our work with our Nepal artisans, financial sustainability did not exist for these women, families or their communities. These individuals are now able to provide for their families and most importantly, provide an alternative to human trafficking. They have a new sense of pride, prestige and hope for the future that comes with earning a livable wage.

Nepal • Wool Scarves & hats • Pomegranate Moon

Pomegranate Moon is a Fair Trade, socially responsible company dedicated to providing quality handmade fashion accessories for our customers while increasing benefits for artisans in Nepal.

Their handmade scarves are created using Nuno felting process. Small bits of locally raised merino wool are carefully placed on recycled silk, chiffon, or cotton. The materials are heated, soaped, and scrubbed causing the wool fibers to migrate through the weave of the cloth and bond together creating garments that are lightweight and drape beautifully on the body. Traditional wet felted techniques are the oldest form of fabric making.

AFrica

Kenya • Jewelry • Tumaini Arts Africa

Each morning the Sudanese women in the Kenya refugee camp gather for work. You can hear their voices rise over the land as they begin to craft in the traditions of their homeland they miss so much. Together they work to keep the arts and traditions of their culture alive. Tumaini is the Swahili word for “hope”. Tumaini Arts Africa brings the work of these Sudanese refugees from their camp in Kenya to America. Tumaini Art’s mission is to preserve African culture, empower refugees, and pass thier traditions onto the next generation. 

East Africa • Jewelry • Noble Venture

Through Noble Venture’s incredible collection of handmade beaded products, East African women artisans enjoy fulfilling employment and fair wages. Each item is carefully designed and made by hand, using each woman’s talent and skill.

While the bracelets they make are stunning, their beauty is doubled by the financial strength, self-confidence, and education they receive as they preserve and honor their Maasai heritage and culture. Proceeds from product sales benefit women artisan groups with a track record of success in providing critical support for girls and women. Our handcrafted beaded leather bracelets are beautifully produced to ensure that you’re sharing freedom, love and empowerment and styling with purpose.

Ghana • Woven Bags & Baskets • Gitzelle

Gitzelle FairTrade provides beautifully hand-woven African baskets. There is great gratification in providing a very large population of weavers in the Sub-Saharan African opportunities for partnerships. With these opportunities the weavers are able to provide a better livelihood for their families and their future that they may not ordinarily have.

With dedicated long-term goals of improving the livelihoods of families and community benefits, Gitzell is the name you want to have on your African Basket!

Uganda • Jewelry • Purpose Jewelry

Purpose Jewelry is the collection of jewelry crafted by survivors of traumatic exploitation in Uganda. Women find training, comfort, healing and companionship at the International Sanctuary in Kampala - one of 5 International Sanctuary sites.

Americas

AMERICA • Wood & Natural Jewelry • Forest Life

Forest Life are handmade jewelry, inspired by the “voices” within the wood.

Forest Live founder, Dean, learned at a young age to see the small things in nature, and what better way to share with you what he sees, than through using the organic refuse of our society to bring to you natures secrets.

Dean was homeless for more than two decades in the American northwest. Then he discovered working with wood and found a craft that became his means to living a new life. The wood Dean uses is mostly reclaimed from the recycle bins of wood working schools, luthier and cabinet making shops. This is eco-friendly jewelry that is lightweight, organic, but still elegant. It’s different, it’s mysterious, it’s made for you…

AMERICA • Stationary & Jewelry • Hope Co. - las vegas

Hope Co. works with organizations in Las Vegas who are helping survivors of trafficking, trauma and addiction restore their lives and become financially independent. To date, Hope Co. is partnering with The Salvation Army - S.E.E.D.s of Hope, The Hoving Home, Regeneration Enterprises, and My True ID through training, volunteering, crafting and survivor made product development.

Guatemala • Handbags & Jewelry • Noble Venture

Noble Venture artisans from this region create a variety of traditional, handmade Guatemalan crafts, including handbags, accessories, while adhering to Fair Trade practices. Guatemala has the highest rate of malnutrition in the Western hemisphere, with more than half the population living below the national poverty line. Creating opportunities for Guatemalan artisans helps to generate sustainable and viable livelihoods through their craft. New opportunities and ongoing training support provide stability and the chance to earn a sustainable wage.

Guatemala • Handbags & Jewelry • Dunitz & Co.

Dunitz & Company has been a pioneer in the Fair Trade movement for 3 decades. Their designs of woven goods and intricately beaded jewelry have been creating jobs for the people in Guatemala with good wages in a nation where poverty is so common.

Haiti • Handbags & Jewelry

Noble Venture‘s artisans in Haiti create beautiful, handcrafted products out of discarded and seemingly unusable materials including metal, cardboard, aluminum, dirt and paper. They breathe beauty back into discarded items that were once considered of no value, just as they rehabilitate their own lives as they recover from exploitation and neglect.

The mantra of our Haitian artisans is “many hands make the load light,” and they believe that when the designers, artisans, and consumers work together we can help lighten each other’s load and bring about lasting positive impact.

MEXICO • YM Designs • Jewelry

Yaz Molina is an entrepreneur living in Central Mexico. Homeless with a small child before she was 18, she struggled to live on her own. Two retired entrepreneurs from American met her in her hometown. Seeing her spark for creativity and business savvy, they took them under their wings and mentored her. With new creative skills training plus financial and business coaching, Yaz started her own enterprise: YM Designs. Today she is creating a sustaining income for herself and her son.

Europe

Romania • Handbags • 3 Strands/Noble Venture

How do you break the shackles of generational poverty? 3 Strands Romanian artisans are developing skills and gaining independence through their work, restoring dignity and empowering people to provide for their families through the beautiful craftsmanship of their leather products. In Romania, the mission is to produce the highest quality handmade products using the best possible, environmentally-friendly materials to support sustainability from start to finish.