Check out all of the Fair Trade Jewellery From India.

Prices start at $20 and include free shipping. Check out some of our favourites below.

New Fair Trade Jewelry From India

The new artisan jewellery from Bali includes earrings, pendants and rings. Take a look at a few of the highlights below.

Check out all of the New Bali Artisan Jewellery.

New Bali Artisan Jewellery

As a consumer you can purchase goods with a fair trade certified logo to help contribute to empowering individuals to achieve a self sustainable future for themselves and their families.

What is a fair trade town?

A fair trade town is a municipality that supports fair trade and makes the availability of fair trade products wide spread within the town. There are six requirements to becoming a fair trade town:

1. The local council must use fair trade certified products and supports the fair trade town campaign.
2. Stores and restaurants serve fair trade certified products
3. Workplaces, faith groups and schools use and promote fair trade certified products
4. Public awareness events and media coverage of the campaign
5. A steering committee must be formed to continue fair trade growth and committment
6. Other ethical and sustainable initiatives are promoted within the town

Congratulations to our friends in Vancouver for this wonderful objective of helping to eliminate poverty around the world.

To find out more about Fair Trade Vancouver visit their site.

Uganda Jewelry - Recycled Paper Jewelry and more

The jewelry also includes bone fashion bangles and weaved palm tree coin purses in bright and fun colours.

Take a look at all the Uganda Jewelry on the website.

New Chile Fair Trade Jewelry

As you will well know, Chile recently suffered a terrible earthquake. As the people of Chile focus on rebuilding, jewellery artisans need to find export markets to sell their jewellery in order to earn a living and support their families.

Not only are these jewellery pieces helping a worthy cause but they are also beautiful and fashionable.

Jewellery materials include glass jewelry, copper jewelry, ceramic jewelry, macrame and crochet jewelry. The jewelry includes cocktail rings, earrings, bracelets, cuff bangles and necklaces.

The jewelry features some of the traditional materials used in Chile such as Lapis and copper. One of the artisans creates stunning copper cuff bracelets with bronze and various stone accents. He creates a similar style of copper and bronze rings.

Glass is also a common material used by Chilean jewelry artisans. The new fair trade jewelry includes glass necklaces, glass cocktail rings and earrings.

A new material for Pangea Collection are the macramé and crochet earrings. These are available in bright colours and are even available in a butterfly design.

There are also new artisan cocktail rings made with ceramic and glass. They feature adjustable wide bands and a funky round or rectangular ring face. Perfect for making a statement.

Check out the all of the Chile fair trade jewelry on the website.

Prices start at just $19.99 and include free shipping.

Together we can do our small part to enable artisans in Chile and all over the world.

My husband and I had the pleasure of visiting Chile last Christmas and meeting many of the fair trade jewelry artisans featured at Pangea Collection. We visited the office of the fair trade organisation and met with the artisans who had come to showcase their beautiful jewelry. It is for this reason the impact of the earthquake has an even more personal feeling for me.

When I woke up on Saturday morning I immediately emailed my contact at the fair trade organisation to check to see if all was okay with the staff of the organisation as well as the artisans who are located in many areas of Chile, not just Santiago. For several days as I’ve been watching the news I’ve been thinking of them and wondering if indeed they were okay.

Today I received an update indicated the delay was, not surprisingly, a result of electricity and internet outages. The good news is that everyone at the fair trade organisation and their families are okay. The bad news is that they have been unable to reach many of the artisans to find out how they are.

Below is part of the message which the Chilean fair trade organisation is sharing with their partners and friends around the world.

SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES OF ARTISANS AND PRODUCERS AFFECTED BY THE EARTHQUAKE IN CHILE

With great dismay, we are now handling the significant impact of this tremendous earthquake in the regions of Maule, Biobío, and facing a smaller scale of damage, the Metropolitan Region.

We would like to forward our support, companionship, solidarity and love, especially to the families of our artisans and farmers that work in these areas. As a team, we are sending all of our support in offering the network of contacts we manage from Santiago throughout the world. In particular, we sending support to Lipimávida Fruits, production plant of canned papaya, in Ilocos, VII Region, which was completely devastated by the tsunami. We still have no news from this region.

As major communication lines remain cut, we will continue to try contacting these artisans and producers. We are also taking up contact with people in the rural areas surrounding Santiago that were also strongly impacted. We are making an effort to contact these producers to better understand their conditions and how we can help. We send our all of our support.

We greatly appreciate the solidarity and concern of our friends in the various countries that work with us in Fair Trade. We have already received messages from many of our clients who have been our friends and partners for many years. Thank you very much for your concern. We will be advising everyone whether there is any specific help that we need that can be channeled through to these devastated areas.

Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone that has suffered from this disastrous event. We ask that God helps everyone contribute in building solidarity with those affected.

October is fair trade month. During fair trade month you can help raise awareness of fair trade by spreading the word to your friends and family that it is possible to purchase products including fair trade jewelry that you will love, are fairly priced and produced in good working conditions and the artisan is paid a fair price for their work.

Fair trade products including fair trade jewelry ensure that the fair trade jewelry artisan (or other artisan/producer) are paid fairly for their work, are producing the goods such as jewelry in a good working environment, without child labour etc. There are ten basic principles of fair trade that all fair trade organisations must follow ensuring that the fair trade jewelry or other goods are produced ethically.

So this fair trade month help us not only celebrate the beautiful cultural jewelry of the jewelry artisans from around the world but also help these fair trade jewelry artisans achieve the art of self reliance.

The following jewelry is fair trade jewelry:
Fair Trade Jewelry From India
Fair Trade African Jewelry
Nepal Fair Trade Jewelry
Chile Fair Trade Jewelry
Thai Fair Trade Jewelry
Ecuador Fair Trade Jewelry

Happy Fair Trade Month

Last year, Pangea Collection offered a $10 donation from every Sterling Silver Link Heart Pendant Bracelet in support of breast cancer research. This year, Pangea Collection is extending the Breast Cancer Jewelry Collection to include eight different artisan jewellery pieces.

A donation of $5 from every Pink Breast Cancer Jewelry Earrings or Scarf purchase and a $10 donation from every Pink Breast Cancer Jewelry Bracelet or Necklace.

Breast Cancer Jewelry Collection

The pieces in the Pink Breast Cancer Jewelry Collection include the jewelry pieces below. Click on the name to see the jewelry on the Pangea Collection website.

Pink Semi Precious Stone Lariat Necklaces

Salmon Moss Semi Precious Stone Bracelet

Pink Rhodonite Semi Precious Stone Bracelet

Sterling Silver Heart Pendant Bracelet

Silver and Pink Cz Crystal Earrings

Pink Jade Earrings

Cherry Quartz Earrings

Coral Pink Thai Silk Scarf

In addition to your artisan jewellery purchase contributing a donation to breast cancer research, you will also be helping support artisans and their families around the world.

Pieces in the Pink Breast Cancer Jewelry Collection are artisan jewellery pieces from the Mexico Silver Jewelry Collection (Sterling Silver Heart Pendant Link Bracelet), Canadian Artisan Jewellery Collection (Pink Semi Precious Stone Lariat Necklaces, Salmon Moss Unakite Semi Precious Stone Bracelet, Pink Rhodonite Semi Precious Stone Bracelet, Pink Jade Earrings and Cherry Quartz Earrings), Thai Fair Trade Jewelry and Silk Collection (Silver and Pink Cz Crystal Earrings and Coral Pink Thai Silk Scarf).

You can feel proud to wear your fair trade jewelry and know that during our mother’s day celebration it not only helped the fair trade jewelry artisans who crafted it but also contributed towards loans for struggling entrepreneurs in the developing world.

We thank you for your support!