Rwanda Partners

Rwanda Partners (RP) is a non-profit, fair trade organization committed to fighting poverty and restoring hope to the poor and marginalized in East Africa. Through projects in education and job creation, Rwanda Partners works toward the broader goal of healing and reconciliation among the Rwandan people and the greater region of East Africa.

Our emphasis has been to train and equip the rural poor so they are able to benefit from the opportunity of participating in local and global markets. Our artisans are members of the world’s most vulnerable population, including widows, rural weavers, genocide survivors, orphans, street children, former prostitutes, and rural farmers.

Land of a Thousand Hills

Drink coffee.  Do good.  Land of a Thousand Hills is a coffee company that pays a fair wage to the farmers of Rwanda, helps them with their basic needs, and brings a quality product to coffee lovers.

The introduction of specialty coffee to the healing fields of Rwanda proved to be an uncommon opportunity for once warring countrymen to not only rebuild their homesteads, but to work together toward lasting peace. A commitment to excellence in coffee has brought dignity and hope to a nation that history suggested would never recover.

Land of a Thousand Hills has reached beyond the borders of Rwanda to bring dignity and hope to Haiti, Thailand, and other parts of the globe. We partner with farmers and local community leaders to develop the coffee into a sustainable income, pay a just Living Wage, and strive to further meet the needs of the people.

Trades of Hope

Gifts of Hope is an important link in the chain of helping women out of poverty. It is a way that Trades of Hope gives back through the profits of our product sales.

Trades of Hope gives donations to programs that promote long term business or education. We send chickens, roosters, sheep, and goats to families in Africa, sewing machines to Haiti, materials to women in Cambodia, and more! Trades of Hope is always excited about finding new ways to help women around the world start new businesses to break the cycle of poverty for their families!!

Sari Bari

Sari Bari seeks the sustainable restoration of red light communities and the prevention of the exploitation of women and children in the commercial sex trade.  Sari Bari is a safe place of employment where women who have been exploited in the sex trade or who are vulnerable to trafficking can experience a new life in the making.

Embracing Hope Ethiopia

Embracing Hope Ethiopia is an organization focused on preventing orphans by preserving families. We work among the poorest of the poor in a slum area of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Your purchase of the items on this site not only provide for these services, but also provide the moms who made these items with a living wage. All items purchased here will come with a Card describing a bit about the project as well as the name of the Mom who created the item. This makes these items great gifts for those who are socially conscious.

Sevenly

In January of 2011, two Entrepreneurs got together with the mission of leading a generation toward generosity. With a belief that people mattered, we began a journey to change the world. Our driving theory was, “If we could help people give, we could get them to care.” June 13th 2011, Sevenly was born. By creating weekly cause campaigns where people could purchase lifestyle products that benefited a partner charity, Sevenly successfully unlocked a way to not only raise major funding but huge awareness too.

Apparent Project

The Apparent Project artisans guild uses discarded materials such as cereal and cracker boxes, oil drums, and trash paper to create beautiful “upcycled” pieces of jewelry, journals, and stylish home decor. While redeeming the Haitian landscape, these artisans are also bringing new hope to their families, employing themselves for a brighter future and earning the means to pay for their children's food, shelter, and education. That means less orphans, less crime, less garbage, less stress, and a whole lot more beauty.

Rethreaded

Rethreaded is a faith-based nonprofit whose purpose is to help "sew a new story" for people affected by the local and international sex trade.

Rethreaded is a business for women who are coming out of lives of addiction, violence, human trafficking, and prostitution. Many of these women come out of jail with felonies and need a safe place to get decent work. Rethreaded hopes to serve as that place of transformation. We take donated T-shirts and up-cycle them into new products.

TOMS

With every pair of TOMS you purchase, TOMS will give a pair to new shoes to a child in need. One for One.

Tabitha's Hope / New Life Threads

In partnership with Africa New Life, New Life Threads seeks to transform lives in Rwanda. Africa New Life’s Family Center Program provides vulnerable women with sewing skills, counseling, and other support to 70 women each year. These women are genocide survivors, single mothers or women struggling with poverty. Learning to sew gives them the opportunity to change their lives with dignity. Graduates are able to find jobs, start their own sewing businesses, or sew for New Life Threads.

New Life Threads is a part of Tabitha’s Hope, a 501c3 non-profit. New Life Threads and Tabitha’s Hope is 100% volunteer-led and 100% of the profit goes to Africa New Life to support job creation, training and support, and special projects in Rwanda.

Red Earth

Creating hope and opportunity through commerce.

Every Red Earth purchase creates what we like to call a double dose of good. Not only are our artisan families and communities benefiting from the work, but we also give all of our profits away to sustain the community development work of Know Think Act.

Our relationship with our artisans goes beyond just design and creation. We also work to help them better organize and manage their businesses to be successful in every market. These small companies are a vital part of lifting families out of poverty and building a strong middle class. As they succeed it creates opportunity for generations to come.

Raven + Lily

Empowering women through design.  Raven + Lily currently helps employ marginalized women in Africa, India, Cambodia and the United States at fair trade wages to give them access to a safe job, sustainable income, healthcare, education, and a real chance to break the cycle of poverty for themselves and their families. Every product from Raven + Lily is handmade, fair trade and eco-friendly.

Punjammies

PUNJAMMIES™ are created in after-care facilities for women who have been rescued, released or escaped from a life of forced prostitution. Their lives have been marked by a message – you are a commodity – to be used for others' gain.

PUNJAMMIES™ is the vehicle used to empower each woman. Instead of the vicious cycle of her former life, the making of PUNJAMMIES starts her on her own virtuous cycle of self-reliance and dignity. A simple thing like making pajamas is what it takes. With the brothel behind and opportunity ahead in a new, supportive community, she is gradually restored to health. When its time, she is trained to sew -- and more importantly, to contribute as an integral part of an inter-dependent team.

Not For Sale

Not For Sale creates tools that engage business, government, and grassroots in order to incubate and grow social enterprises to benefit enslaved and vulnerable communities.  The Not For Sale Store generates enterprise and employment to prevent human trafficking and create new futures for survivors. Every purchase you make is an action to end slavery --- because no one should be for sale. Buy for freedom.

Noonday

At Noonday Collection, we want to give women in all seasons of life the opportunity to earn extra income while creating a pathway out of poverty for the artisans who hand make every item we sell. We want to create a transparent shopping experience where women learn about the story that is behind their purchase. Noonday Ambassadors are starting a MOVEMENT where women become conscientious consumers. Furthermore, we educate women about the global orphan crisis, and we help support adoptive families in their fundraising experiences.

Mercy House

All proceeds support the maternity program.  The program provides a safe place – a guarded home with 12 maternity beds, pre-natal care, proper nutrition, counseling,  education, livelihood skills and an account to start a small business or go to school.

Love 41

100% of profits go toward loving orphans, widows and street kids.

Krochet Kids

Our vision is to empower people to rise above poverty.  Our vision is to create sustainable economic development programs that support holistic growth of individuals and communities within developing nations and to inspire the knowledge of a generation about their ability to bring change to a world that is in need.

Hello Somebody

Hello Somebody exists to provide sustainable projects and restorative care to improve the lives of children in need.  We exist to engage people in a movement, that gives an opportunity to help others in need. By offering relevant consumer products like watches and apparel, cause partnerships are able to be supported as we advocate for our partner organizations.

Hand and Cloth

Through dignified work and the Word of God, Hand & Cloth offers livelihood and Life to women at-risk.

Old Testament writers used the Hebrew word רפא (rapha) to refer to healing, especially divine healing. More literally, rapha means to sew together or to stitch. And so our name, Hand and Cloth, is an image not only of the creative work these women are doing, but also of the creative, healing work God is doing in their lives. As each product is handmade by a woman, our hope is that she would come to know that she is handmade by God.

Our kantha blankets are made in Bangladesh by women who have completed transitional job training programs and now work in dignity at a business called Basha. At Basha, women gain job skills, develop into leaders and entrepreneurs, and experience Biblical values lived out in the workplace.

Haitian Creations

This ministry is not just about charity to the poor…it is about building empowering relationships with the women in our programs. Women who have completed the sewing and beading program have the option of making jewelry and purses for Haitian Creations. If they decide to create products for us, we buy them and sell them in the States. We sell through 2 main avenues: purse parties and this online store.

GROOBS

With every pair of GROOBS you purchase, you and GROOBS become partners. Partners in Compassion. For every pair of GROOBS you buy, we will give a new pair of GROOBS to someone in need.

Global Girlfriend

Global Girlfriend was created to help women worldwide gain economic security while providing you unique products and a simple way to help women in need. Our fair-trade boutique offers a line of trend-setting, women-made, fair-trade products including stylish apparel, accessories and gifts with one purpose -- helping women in need help themselves. We believe passionately that economic opportunity for women holds the promise for real change in the world; because when women have an income, they reinvest in themselves and in their children's health, education and nutrition, building stronger families and communities over time. Many women try desperately to make a living selling their artisan-quality goods but find that they have little access to market opportunities. Through fair-trade practices, Global Girlfriend brings the work of these disadvantaged groups directly to you. Global Girlfriend believes in forming long-term partnerships that provide women a fair living wage with equal employment opportunities, healthy and safe working conditions, technical assistance and development strategies to foster prosperity and reduce poverty.

Give Prints

Giving 50% of our profits to help love people around the world. Give Prints is a for profit company working to give financially to various non profits (501c). Just as one values the beauty of a print, Give Prints values the beauty of lives changed.

The heart of Give Prints is to help people send love to others through the purchasing of prints. It was born out of a photographer's desire to help fellow photographers publicize their work while helping worthy organizations that are already reaching out to people all over the world. The photographers showcased on the site gave their talents to GIVE to our charities.

FashionABLE

You are ABLE to provide opportunities, and these women are ABLE to have a new choice.  We are a non-profit.  That means your purchase of a scarf does far more than just create jobs.  The fashionABLE mission is to create sustainable business in Africa so that the women are not dependent upon charity, but instead are a vital part of a developing economy.

Ever / After

Ever/After donates 25% of the net profit of every garment to the cause of your choice among a variety of partner causes that are creating powerful and sustaining changes in the lives of those that need it most.

Compassion Store

 

Compassion International exists as a Christian child advocacy ministry that releases children from spiritual, economic, social and physical poverty and enables them to become responsible, fulfilled Christian adults. Compassion helps more than 1.2 million children in 26 countries

Come Together Trading

We are a Christ-Centered Fair Trade Retail Store seeking to help people living and working in unfair conditions across the world by providing them with a marketplace for the beautiful products they produce.

All of the products we sell are handmade with great love by wonderful amazing people who just happen to live in some of the most poverty stricken and difficult places in the world.

By purchasing their products you are helping create and sustain jobs for them, which positively impacts all other areas of their life.

Be The joy

Be The Joy, Inc. is a non-profit organization designed to help send girls to school in Uganda, East Africa. By educating young women in this developing country, we can provide a better life for them and generations to follow. All profits earned from heartbeads, JoyNotes, Tees, or other merchandise help pay for girls school fees. Join the movement in educating the youth of Uganda today!

147 Million

The mission of 147 Million Orphans is to provide food, water and medicine to children in need worldwide, to bring awareness to the orphan crisis, and to assist adoptive families with fundraising through the sale of original and handmade products.

31 Bits

USING FASHION AND DESIGN TO EMPOWER WOMEN TO RISE ABOVE POVERTY.

31 Bits Designs is a socially minded business designed to give internally displaced women in Northern Uganda an opportunity to counter poverty. By giving our beneficiaries access to the international market, they are able to earn an instant income, providing homes, food, and education for their families. Our program equips women by providing literacy education, financial and vocational training, holistic care, and strong support systems, empowering individuals to further their careers and attain social equity.

3 Cords

3 Cords is a social enterprise founded in September 2010 to train, employ, and empower Haitian men and women. Our mission is to provide opportunities for physically handicapped women and men, and to show them that they are both beautiful and valuable. We do this by training our employees as artisans in a loving, community oriented environment.

Our vision is to change lives by providing jobs for women and men to empower them to provide for themselves and their families. In most cases, the women and men at 3 Cords are caring for multiple adults and children within their families. By working full-time jobs, Haitians are naturally empowered, being viewed as hard workers and breadwinners in their communities. Moreover, our hope is that 3 Cords can disprove the cultural stigma against handicapped people in Haiti, and show Jesus’ model of redemption and hope for the world.