Amazing Bead Jewelry For A Good Cause
This tier drops choker was created by women in India and sold through WorldofGood.com to help them earn a living wage.
I like to highlight all the positive ways people around the world are using bead jewelry to help one another. I recently stumbled across the World of Good website which features all sorts of fair trade products crafted by artisans all over the world and sold for a fair price.
They have a lot of really eclectic and unique pieces, but the World of Good jewelry section astounded me because most of it is made with beads, is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before, is amazingly affordable and is helping people around the world!
World of Good helps artisans in impoverished nations by allowing them to create incredible works of art and paying a living wage for those works, and then bringing those pieces to mainstream markets through the internet and other channels. The more people around the world who buy the pieces, the higher the demand, the more business flows back to the artisans!
Last year was their first full year in operation and its amazing to read about some of the work they’ve done:
In our first full year of business last year, World of Good sold over 100,000 handmade items crafted by 133 artisan groups in 31 countries – all of which helped make actual, concrete improvements in the lives of over 2,500 artisans and their families.
We created employment for the disabled in Cambodia, and for HIV positive women in Swaziland. We promoted anti-child-labor activism in India, provided Tsunami relief in Sri Lanka and supported educational programs in Guatemala and Nepal.
The entire website is well done and a joy to navigate through and the prices on their jewelry pieces are absolutely phenomenal! I almost think they are pricing themselves TOO low!
Their website also has a 2006 Social Impact statement and even a place where you can suggest stores (perhaps your own) that would be interested in carrying some of the World of Good products. The entire organization is filled with fascinating people and it looks like they’re growing quickly. That can only mean good things for the artists of the world and the people who love their wonderful wares.
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Comment by Judy Layaou
I am trying to locate a jewelry vendor that was at a seafood festival in Havre de Grace, MD in the summer of 2006 and they sold beaded jewelry that had not metal clasps at all – a knotted bead slides through a bead loop and that is how the jewelry is clasped – the beads are small, tightly woven. I remember they were made in another country and the proceeds went to a good cause to help that country. Please help me find this vendor or the name of the country they are made in.
Comment by Laura Kay
Judy,
I’ve done the Bel Air craft show in MD, but not the Havre de Grace one… though the seafood festival sounds like fun! I don’t know if there’s any easy way to track down vendors from a craft show that was several years ago…. Does the Havre de Grace craft seafood festival have a website?
Comment by Stacey
Judy, hope you’re still checking this…I found the following bead jewelry site while searching for Havre de Grace events. This looks like what you described… Good Luck!
Megan’s Jewelry Box
http://www.megansjewelrybox.com/3.html