By Robin | Operations Manager
As we prepare to launch into the Spring collection it has been amazing to see the new designs that will be added to the line. But even more amazing is that the designs are coming from the women in the program.
The jewelry centers began in 2010. Our goal was to provide meaningful employment that paid above a living wage so that the survivors and at risk women in the shelters and community could move out of poverty and as well as away from the stigma of sex slave. Now in 2014, the women in our programs our designing their futures. As they have mastered the skills of creating jewelry designed by our guest jewelers, they have launched into their own creativeness and designed their own pieces for production into the spring line. Their pieces tell stories of hope and moving forward.
Women in the Made By Survivors Jewelry Centers are now the trainers, supervisors, and designers. As they are promoted from within, new survivor trainess see a future of empowerment and finincial stability that they can also dream of.
Look for our survivor designs to be launched this spring around Mother's Day!
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