Jewelry Ambassador

Some of Our Jewelry Artisans

Amani ya Juu

-Sewing ministry in Kenya

-Started the whole Fair Trade world for Ron and Mary Nelson

-We lived next door to Amani during the year we were in Kenya

-The ladies that work there are from all different African countries (not just Kenya)

-Distinctly Christian; the women don’t have to be Christians when they get hired but usually come to

know the Lord

-Been selling for Amani for 16 years now

Purpose Jewelry

-Through four core components: income, education, healthcare and community –

survivors learn to embrace their true identity and worth after coming out of human trafficking.

-They work in India,

Mexico, Uganda and Asia

Coquettes Armoire

-Jewelry items made out of different grasses

-A missionary child grew up in Honduras and has started this ministry-

-The woman who started the ministry is a friend of Mary’s and Daniel Barkdoll

-She’s on Facebook under Coquettes Armoire

Fair Anita

-A young woman from the USA experienced a horrible traumatic rape and she recovered to then start the nonprofit Fair Anita

-Women are women coming out of traumatic sexual experiences

-Jewelry made in Peru

-Fair Anita name comes out of the original founder in Peru (Anita) and the woman from the USA (Joy McBrien)

Dignity Designs

-Located in Kenya

-Made by moms of kids experiencing disability

-Founded by an embassy worker (from the USA) who gave birth to a child with cerebral palsy

-She wanted the parents of kids experiencing a disability (in Kenya) to get the help she did so she started Dignity Designs

World Finds

-In 1999 Kelly Weinberger and her husband David set out to travel the world and then fell in love with the idea

of fair-trade and started World Finds

-They are located in Katmandu, Nepal

Sasa Designs

-They are located in Kenya

-All the jewelry made is by women that are deaf

-Started in 2011 by Megan McDonald, a young woman from the USA

-Unemployment rate for women that are deaf, in Kenya is 85%