Why Our Artisans Are My Role Models

We have so much to be thankful for and we sometimes forget. But when I think of what we're doing with http://www.world-shoppe.com/, I remember to be thankful for all that we have.

Many of our artisans are women. It's no surprise - women make up the majority of those who live in poverty. Through our purchasing power, and other fair trade groups around the world, these women now have hope. Hope that their skills and passion for their work will not only get noticed, but someone will actually buy their work! Now that's pretty powerful.

Women everywhere (and men, too) just want to experience new things, explore what life has to offer them. It shouldn't be an option to eat every day or be able to have a roof over your head when you sleep at night, or to sleep in silence and not hear bombs or guns going off outside. But for many of our artisan groups, this isn't odd - it's more commonplace than not.

I've said this before but I think it begs to get mentioned again - I'm not naive enough to think I can save the world alone, but together we can make a real difference in our artisans' lives. And even if we can change the world for one person - isn't that a start?

Thank you again for your ongoing and relentless support. We're excited to be bringing you our new pieces just in time for back to school and the holiday season. While it's really early for us to be debuting the pieces right now, they've started coming in and many of you have been asking to see "what's new" so we'll show you some pieces!

Enjoy the rest of summer!

-Megy