Give the gift of changing a life this year. Each store has different offerings but they all support women and children and have beautiful handcrafted items that make lovely gifts. Each item helps women and children come out of poverty, get an education, start a small business, get food and clean water, recover from addictions, be rescued and rehabilitated from sex trafficking and get a second chance at life. Click the photo to be taken directly to the website where you can purchase.
1) Thistle Farms- This is a wonderful store/rehab center in Nashville,TN for women coming out of sex trafficking and addictions. They make a bunch of beautiful products and work with other organizations around the world that all help women get healing, love, community and good jobs.
2) SLUMLOVE- This store sells hand made clothing by women living in the poorest slum in Kenya, Africa giving them jobs. They are ethically made and use local cotton for all their products. Each item sold helps provide scholarships for the kids living in the slum to go to school.
3) Akola- This store hires local women in the poorest margins of Uganda, teaches them jewelry making and helps them to get out of poverty. The one on the left is a DIY bracelet making kit which is great gift for young girls or teens. On the right is an already made gold necklace with a Swarovski crystal and stone on the back that says strength representing inner strength and resilience.
4) Raven & Lily- This women led and owned company works with women around the world to source locally made, sustainable and fair trade items. A portion of profits are donated to various charities that support women such as domestic violence shelters, women's economic security centers and AAYHF.
5) Purpose Jewelry- This jewelry and accessory store supports International Sanctuary. Based in India this shelter helps rehab sex trafficked women. They provide education, healthcare, jobs making the items and community.
6) Kazi- These beautiful home decor items are hand made by 3,600 women in Ghana, Rwanda and Uganda. They break poverty cycles, buy land, put their kids through school and produce food and have impacted over 100,000 people in their communities through the sales of these products.
7) Collective Humanity- This store was started to support the women and children in Cambodia. Working with local artisan women to hand make these throw blankets and other home items, they provide fair trade jobs and locally sourced materials to help these women get out of absolute poverty and into a better future.
8) The Starfish Project- This is such an incredible organization based in south east Asia. They rescue girls and young women out of brothels, give them shelter, rehab, education, life skills and job training, a job and more. This is the front and back of the same necklace from the Give Hope Collection.
9) Quilling Cards- Each card is handmade by a disabled woman in Vietnam. These gorgeous cards come in a variety of options for every occasion and holiday and are literally pieces of art, sure to delight the lucky recipient.
10) Preemptive Love- This charity supports women and children refugees in the Middle East (mostly Syrians, but also works with other people in need from nations such as Venezuela) to provide shelter, food, and micro loans for women to start small businesses. They make soaps, ornaments, apparel and home goods.
11) The Little Market- A non-profit that supports artisan women all over the world and sells their gorgeous goods in one place.
12) Pebble- This shop has hand sewn toys and items for kids. They have some of the cutest things I have ever seen and very affordable as well. The women artisans who make them are from Bangladesh.
13) Fair Anita- This company is based in Peru and is named after one of the founders who is a social worker. The two women founders built this company and a women's shelter to help survivors of domestic violence have a safe place to get the help, healing and financial independence they and their kids needed, by creating and selling these amazing products. Now they also work with other shelters around the world to sell sustainable, fair trade products and empower domestic violence survivors.
14) Sanctuary Project- 100% of the profits of each item goes directly to the job training and to the girl that has been rescued from sex trafficking who made it. They also give them housing, healthcare, counseling and mentoring. This company has beautiful jewelry and helps sex trafficking survivors start a new life. Each piece has a story behind it and this one is an olive branch that represents redemption and reconciliation.
15) Global Mamas- This store is in Ghana, is run by and employs women who are moms, is fair trade, and uses organic cotton in all their items! They have items for men, women, children pets, jewelry, bath/body, and home decor.
16) Novica- This is perfect place to find your new favorite clean beauty product! These are organic and vegan skincare and makeup products that are ethically sourced and fair trade.
17) 1000 Shillings- This company gives women in a slum a micro loan to start a business and they sell those products on the website where they make money to continue to feed their families and employ other women!
18) Alaffia- This incredible organization hires women in Togo to make shea butter based products using traditional methods passed down for centuries. They are all made by hand and organic. They are paid well above national average incomes, and the company has initiatives that donate eyeglasses, support maternal health, provide education, eradicate FGM, and promote environmental sustainability.
19) Globe In- This is a subscription box filled with fair trade, ethical, women artisan made products! There are several types of products and boxes to chose from each month.
20) Benevolence LA- This store donates each product to a different cause! These two items were some of my favorite. The Pearls of Wisdom necklace helps pay for a year of a girl's school and the candle supports rescued sex trafficked girls.
These are a list of incredible fair trade, ethically sourced, mostly organic, hand made products. They all support women and girls around the world getting out of poverty, getting an education, having access to healthcare, counseling, shelters, food and water, escaping abuse, family planning, and improving the life of their children. Every purchase is changing the life of a woman in America or around the world. P.S. none of these are affiliate links, they are just genuinely great companies and beautiful products. Go support a woman and her children and change a life today! For more gift ideas check out the Under $25 Gift Guide and Under $10 Gift Guide. Blessings!
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