Black and rose striped rug by Made By Survivors
These guys are my heroes... the artisans and the people who started this business.
All the products at Made By Survivors are created by people who were formerly slaves and now have been empowered with a new, creative income source. How cool is that? Made By Survivors is a business of Emancipation Network, whose mission is to improve the lives of slavery survivors through empowerment and education, assist rescue shelters by offering job programs and funding, improve rehabilitation and reintegration, and prevent trafficking in high risk communities.
They believe that by addressing poverty and lack of skills and opportunities among survivors and high risk people is the key to ending slavery. So, after rescue and after care, Emancipation Network provides survivors with training, education, and fair-wage employment.
Their work is beautiful. I especially love the designs of the rugs.
They also have a catalog party kit (perfect for the holidays!)
Made by Survivors inspired me to start this site, because... well, people are going to buy things for Christmas and I've love for them to buy from MBS... and I knew that if people discovered this site, they'd want to buy from them.
Enjoy!
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