2021 VIGC Foundation Artisan Items
Making a difference for women around the world.
Giving Back During Giving Season
Supporting women artisans
Your purchase can make a difference this holiday season.
Giving Back During Giving Season
Supporting women artisans
Your purchase can make a difference this holiday season.
The matriarch of one such family-owned workshop is Evon, who is known in her hometown as “the mother of peace” despite a life of hardship in the heart of Bethlehem. When she lost her 16-year-old son to violence during a time of civil unrest in the 1990s, Evon chose to focus her energy on providing a better life for her six daughters.
Sana and her three sisters are the daughters of a traditional jewelry-making family. Watching her parents struggle to promote their jewelry business, she applied her basic literacy and internet skills to messaging companies who promoted artisan items.
One of those women, Sheila, 53, is proud of how far she has come in her two years of sobriety, with the wisdom and strength found from overcoming years of addiction and domestic abuse. Growing up as one of ten children in her family, Sheila watched her parents struggle to make ends meet.
One of those women, Muna, was rescued from trafficking and taken in by Raksha where she received therapy, medical care, and education. Since her rescue, Muna has completed school, vocational training in sewing.
Muna is also a vital part of Raksha’s leadership team, becoming a voice for girls like her who have been exploited and helping them through the rehabilitation process.
Born in Afghanistan, Hanifa, the leader of Free Women, relocated with her children to the United States to escape a loveless marriage she was forced into as a child, and the domestic abuse that followed. After years of working and saving in the United States, Hanifa has purchased a home for her family and looks forward to helping other women actualize their dreams with the money she has earned from this project.
With your Developing Enterprise donation, you will support the efforts of women—like the many who handcrafted artisan items for this Holiday Gift Guide—living in vulnerable conditions around the world.
Purchase the Championing Education set and give the very best gift: a quality education that will help underprivileged youth break the cycle of generational poverty.
Through the Ending Exploitation postcards, you’ll help a survivor feel safe as they begin their journey of healing, recovery, and ultimately, reunification with their family after being trafficked.
