Empowerment Through Employment
The products included in this collection directly empower and lift up their makers.
Some amazing examples are...
🪵Formr - Thoughtfully designed furniture providing a second chance to formerly incarcerated individuals and construction debris.
☕Goldberry Roasting Company - Partners with their sister company, Coffee Growing Community - a non-profit organization - to combine free-market economic initiatives with spiritual and social development that helps coffee-farming families and their communities enjoy a more abundant life.
🐝Zambeezi - Provides Zambian farmers a fair & living wage, while also using their profits to benefit African communities, by partnering with local churches to build schools, clinics, drilling wells, and other projects that serve needs they identify.
♀️ The TAYO Collective - A creative community that exists to empower women formerly trapped in the sex trade in the Philippines to develop products, services, and life skills to launch them into a dignified career.