Recycled Handcrafted Locally-sourced Unique Global Green Sustainable For-benefit Fair
The core of our business is to nurture long-term, sustainable relationships with our partners. We pay fair prices, give advance payment for orders when needed, provide small business loans, and facilitate new product development.
Artisans from Uganda
Working out of their homes in Jinja and Kampala, our partners are able to take care of their children and home while they roll colorful paper strips, cut from magazines and poster paper, into beads. Eventually the beads are creatively strung into necklaces, bracelets, earrings, ornaments, and more. Many of the women lovingly care for AIDS orphans along with their own children. Some of the women are sick with the HIV virus. All are striving to better their lives. By working their craft, they are able to make a living wage, which helps pay for medicine, food, transportation and school fees.
Artisans from Kenya
Zingira Nyanza Community Crafts ("Zingira" means "environment" in Swahili) is a community-based organization of artisans situated in Kisumu, Kenya, near Lake Victoria. They bring together the efforts of local artisans to produce a range of handicraft products made from recycled, eco-friendly and locally sourced materials, including recycled paper cards and recycled tin crafts such as jewelry, mobiles, hooks, boxes and Christmas decorations. They also run a charity program that provides food, clothing and books for orphans and widows in their rural community of Siaya, and they support local HIV testing and education efforts in Kisumu.
Artisans from India
Sanskritik is a fair trade group of textile workers and apprentices from Punjab, in Northern India. This small group of women is committed to improving the quality of life for the working classes. They pair experienced textile workers with young women from disadvantaged families, training them in the art of embroidery, sewing, and ethnic tie-dye techniques. They are committed to a safe and nurturing work environment, educational assistance, emergency loans, opportunities for advancement, participatory decision-making, and fair pay--enough money for food, housing, transportation and healthcare.
Uganda
India
Shop owners, vendors, fund raisers, nonprofits, and others can qualify for discount pricing for buying in quantities.”
Contact us for price sheets and order forms.
Wholesale Terms
Minimum order: $150.00. First orders may be paid by check or credit card to establish
an account. For subsequent orders, we will include an invoice with terms of net 30.
Recycled paper jewelry and gifts from Uganda
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Scarves and headbands from India--Click here for New Chiffon Scarves
Recycled tin and wire people and handmade paper greeting cards from Kenya
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Kenya
Volunteer Kenya
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Volunteer Vacations
Are you ready for the vacation experience of a lifetime? Want to have meaningful cultural interactions with the communities you visit? Are you passionate about art, the environment, fair trade, or giving back through service? If so, then an expedition with Jinja Fair Trade is something you don’t want to miss.
Current International Volunteer Opportunities:
--Kisumu, Kenya
Want to help out locally? Contact us!
Host a Fundraising Event
1. Pick a date for your event
2. Invite friends, family, co-workers, and neighbors
3. Relax while we set-up and display beautiful, unique, and affordable Jinja Fair Trade products in your home using our retail display pieces
4. Play host while friends shop, browse, eat, drink, and learn the artisans' stories
5. Donate 25% of the receipts to YOUR good-cause organization
6. Smile. The world just got a little bit better
Fundraise for Volunteer Travel
Paying participants with Jinja Fair Trade volunteer vacations have access to Jinja Fair Trade product at wholesale prices. Organize your own sales and events and use the profits to fund your travel.
Contact us to learn more.
Jinja Fair Trade
Mailing Address:
5660 Six Forks Road, Ste 202
Raleigh, NC 27609
Phone: 919-374-0044
Fax: 919-861-5277
Email: stacey_jinjafairtrade.org
