Saturday, December 1, 2012

Visible Love through Shopping: Part 7

Only 3 more weeks left  for online Christmas shopping...let’s avoid the stress of shopping at the mall, while helping others who are in need by buying from this companies who are changing lives. Even if we can commit to doing as little as 25% of our shopping's from this websites, we can say we made a difference. Pleases feel free  to go back and revisit "visible love through shopping Part 1 to 6"  so you can have a wider selection.

One Mango Tree is a company that is owned by people who believe that economic empowerment provides the foundation for sustainable peace and development.  They go beyond fair trade to create jobs and improve quality of life in some of the most challenging environment in the world. They specifically look for people who lost their job due to factory closing and also women who are in displacement camps, former combatants and victims. The collections at one Mango tree includes, women clothing, handbags, scarves and hats.


Novica  is one of the largest e-commerce website that allows artisans around the world to sell unique, high-quality goods directly to consumers. These goods include home furnishings, apparel, jewelry, ceramics, art, and more...items that would often never make it to international markets at the prices Novica pays to artisans (and offers to consumers). Novica provides detailed information and stories about each artisan, which helps to cut out middle-men and establishes direct global connections that support entrepreneurs and small businesses in Indonesia, the Andes, Mexico, Brazil, Central America, India, Thailand, and West Africa


Sole hope is  a children shoe company that is changing lives by providing close toe shoes to children in need in Africa and by  teaching the trades of shoe making   to homeless, recovering addicts, and non profits in the US and Africa. You can also adopt a child as little as $10 a month through this website.To those of us who cares about the enviroment; sole hope shoes are earth friendly and made from recycled material.  


"For if you give, you will get! Your gift will return to you in full and overflowing measure, pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, and running over. Whatever measure you use to give — large or small — will be used to measure what is given back to you." Luke 6:38

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