By Sarah Symons | Ex Director
Thank you for your continued support of Made By Survivors Jewelry Centers. The last shelter build and jewelry center construction has been completed.
For the past three years, we have been raising funds to build a shelter in Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India in partnership with our dear friends at Women's Interlink Foundation. We broke ground in late 2013, finished the exterior in September 2014, and just this month, finished the plumbing and electrical and bought beds, so that the first 50 girls can move in later this month. View the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi1IUiNnGGo&feature=youtu.be.
Our exquisite new jewelry collection - Sacred Garden - was designed by survivors at the new shelter in Jalpaiguri. The designs are based on the flowering vines that grow near the workshop in Jalpaiguri. According to the survivors, 'no matter how much you cut back a vine, it only grows back stronger', so the vines in these dramatic sterling silver and 22 karat gold-plated pieces are a beautiful metaphor for resilience.
The Made By Survivors Jewelry Centers are selling their jewelry through Relevée.com. This has become a successful model, as a social enterprise to sustain the Made By Survivors Jewelry Centers and pay the designers and manufaturors above fair wages. In fact, most of the women who have been working in the program since 2010 are now making wages comparable with a college educated woman in India.
Thank you for helping survivors have a future that is strong and hopeful.
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