Trade As One Boutique
Sat. Oct. 13 from 4:00 to 7:30 p.m. and Sun., October 14 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
hosted by Clovis Hills Community Church
10590 North Willow Avenue, Clovis, CA 93619
Products from Trade As One will be avialable for purchase. Items include food, accessories, housewares, apparel, books, gifts, and more!
For more information, call Clovis Hills at 559-297-2600.
Trade As One is a non-profit organization bring fair trade business to the public.
For more information about Trade As One, including how to host a boutique, visit their website.
Showing posts with label jewelry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jewelry. Show all posts
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Uganda Jewelry Adds Wedding Line
The theme of The Wedding Collection is “First Comes Love…”. Your relationship didn’t start with a wedding, just like 31 Bits didn’t start with a business plan. It simply started with love...
SHOP THE WEDDING COLLECTION HERE
Read more about their inspiration for their line in their NEW WEDDING CATALOG
Monday, November 22, 2010
Just Launched! Imani Jewelry
(note: shipping is free right now during Black Friday)
Introducing Imani
I have a few bead necklaces that are very special to me. When I wear them, I think of a group of women in Uganda who made the beads... who graciously and joyful received me and let me in their lives. A year and a half ago, I visited the women and children of Zion Project in Gulu, Uganda. The founder, Sarita Hartz, has a heart to see war affected women in this region healed, whole, and thriving.
I was invited to join in the worship, play, and other daily life of a group of Congolese women and some children who lived together in a ZP house and my breath was taken away by their joy, their passion, their atmosphere shaking singing and dancing as they praised God.
(Here are some photos from the trip. You can see the Congolese with the beads and praying for people)
The women had been trafficked into Uganda by Ugandan soldiers who had come into Congo to fight the rebel group that ravaged Northern Uganda. Then the women were abandoned in Gulu as illegal immigrants who didn't speak the language. They were in prostitution to survive... then came to live in a house run by ZP.
Zion Project trained the women to make beads out of paper, which were made into beautiful necklaces. Paper! The paper beads were alternative source of income for the women and a means of supporting the house.
Since then, Zion Project has been continuing to develop relationships and love a whole community of Congolese women with similar stories. ZP started a counseling support group for the women. Many women are leaving prostitution and seeking a new life.
Their new jewelry line, Imani, is the opportunity for a new way for these amazing Congolese women to provide for themselves and their children.
The stories I've been reading about what's happening in these women's lives is humbling and beautiful. Read more about them here
So I'm thrilled to introduce you to them and their jewelry line. I consider the necklaces a treasure- like the women themselves.
Enjoy!
Introducing Imani
I was invited to join in the worship, play, and other daily life of a group of Congolese women and some children who lived together in a ZP house and my breath was taken away by their joy, their passion, their atmosphere shaking singing and dancing as they praised God.
(Here are some photos from the trip. You can see the Congolese with the beads and praying for people)
The women had been trafficked into Uganda by Ugandan soldiers who had come into Congo to fight the rebel group that ravaged Northern Uganda. Then the women were abandoned in Gulu as illegal immigrants who didn't speak the language. They were in prostitution to survive... then came to live in a house run by ZP.
Zion Project trained the women to make beads out of paper, which were made into beautiful necklaces. Paper! The paper beads were alternative source of income for the women and a means of supporting the house.
Since then, Zion Project has been continuing to develop relationships and love a whole community of Congolese women with similar stories. ZP started a counseling support group for the women. Many women are leaving prostitution and seeking a new life.
Their new jewelry line, Imani, is the opportunity for a new way for these amazing Congolese women to provide for themselves and their children.
The stories I've been reading about what's happening in these women's lives is humbling and beautiful. Read more about them here
So I'm thrilled to introduce you to them and their jewelry line. I consider the necklaces a treasure- like the women themselves.
Enjoy!
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Featured Store: Made By Survivors
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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