Womens Peace Collection

Meet the Activist: Amber Chand

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:21:55 +0000

Click here to read the recent interview of Women’s Peace Collection founder Amber Chand on blog.globalsister.org.

Gifts of Conscience

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:57:44 +0000

A customer who recently linked to us from the website of our partner, Save Darfur, left us this thoughtful note with a message that is heartening to receive and a reminder that purchasing a gift from The Collection goes beyond a simple albeit meaningful transaction. For Michelle Portnoy, it was transformational: I have recently decided [...]

Bridges of Peace: The Humanity Bracelet

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:23:48 +0000

The Women’s Peace Collection is proud to unveil its newest product, the Humanity Bracelet, an elegant fluorite design made by women artisans in Afghanistan. The bracelet is our signature icon supporting Women for Women International’s “Join Me on the Bridge” campaign, a global women’s movement demonstrating that women are the cornerstones of bridges of peace and development in the future. On March 8, 2010 – International Women’s Day – hundreds of women around the world will gather on bridges in a show of solidarity. The Humanity Bracelet symbolizes the hard work and devotion that Afghan women have invested in self-sustenance and peace for their families and communities.

Humanity Bracelet

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:03:40 +0000

Your Price: $50.00 Add To Cart The Women’s Peace Collection is proud to unveil the Humanity Bracelet, specially created for us by Afghan women in Kabul for the Join Me on a Bridge campaign celebrating women’s call to peace around the world. Hand carved entirely from fluorite stones – reputed to transform chaos into order and [...]

Support our partner in Afghanistan: Women of Hope Project

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:52:59 +0000

Dear Friends of the Women of Hope Project, I’m sitting at my desk in my warm home listening to the howling noise created by the Blizzard of 2010. I’m almost too warm from the flames emanating from our beautiful, heat producing fireplace. I’m very concerned about the weight of an immense amount of snow on the [...]

Heart’s Content Valentine Basket Set

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:26:08 +0000

In the region of Virunga National Park in Rwanda, the women of the Kinigi Ladies Weaving Association are rebuilding their lives by hand-crafting small baskets made of colorful sisal fibers. Across the Atlantic, cocoa farmers in Peru, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic are working to reverse the environmentally hazardous, inhumane conditions practiced in much [...]

Hearts Content Basket Set

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:35:19 +0000

Your Price: $22.00 Add To Cart This set of two colorful sisal baskets, hand-crafted by Rwandan women, includes eight individually wrapped heart-shaped chocolates produced from Fair Trade, organic cocoa in Peru, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic. After the 1994 genocide, Rwandan women took it upon themselves to rebuild their country, many doing so through the enterprise [...]

The Dance of the Sensual Heart

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:36:10 +0000

Dance and movement are conduits that can help us tune in and heal our lives. By Carrie Pinsky for www.bellaspark.com When you meet Leela Francis it becomes immediately apparent that she is extremely comfortable in her own skin. As you listen to her words and watch the way she moves, you sense a tangible mind, body and [...]

Our mission to support those in need – Haiti

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:47:40 +0000

Dear Chere: Thank you for taking the time to send us your thoughts and concerns about our recent email on supporting the relief efforts in Haiti. We did not send this email out lightly – in fact, we asked ourselves the question, “are we, as a business, exploiting this terrible tragedy”. Our conclusion was [...]

Crisis in Haiti

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:41:41 +0000

An earthquake centered 10 miles south of Port-au-Prince has ravaged Haiti, with estimates of the dead nearing 200,000. Hundreds of thousands more have survived, and now they require urgent medical help and supplies to get through the trying days, weeks and months until the country can rebuild.