To purchase HOPE Bracelets online,
please visit our
Jewelry Gallery.
H.O.P.E Bracelet Project
The sale of
H.O.P.E.
bracelets
supports AIDS orphans and other
vulnerable children living in the shanty
towns of South Africa, where abject
poverty is a way of life. These children
subsist in tin shacks, with no
electricity, heat, running water or
sewers and suffer from a wide range of
health problems stemming from HIV/AIDS
and malnutrition. Funds raised from
these bracelets will help to provide
nutritional support to the children
through the development of permaculture
gardens and the distribution of
nutritional supplements. (All bracelets
are made by women living in these
communities to earn a living for
themselves and the children. They are
paid fair trade wages for their work.)
H.O.P.E.—
Helping
Orphans
by
Providing
Empowerment—is
an organization that has been
created to link organizations in
need of fundraising in North America
to an economic upliftment project in
Africa.
H.O.P.E. hires and
trains impoverished women with no
job skills and no hope of finding
work to earn a living making beaded
jewelry which can then be sold in
North America, raising funds along
the way for the organizations
involved, and ultimately using the
profits to support orphans and other
impoverished children who currently
are slowly starving in an area where
most of the population is living in
abject poverty..
The model for H.O.P.E. is
based on the idea that if you give
someone a fish, they eat for a day.
If you teach them to fish, they eat
for life. Instead of the charity
model in which there is just a
never-ending need for ongoing
donations to help others, in this
economic upliftment model, women who
have had no way to earn a living are
being given a chance to do so, and
are now able to support themselves
and their children. And in turn, in
the true microeconomics upliftment
model, the income they then spend in
the community helps to lift others
out of poverty.
After the women are paid their fair
wages, all the profits made from the
jewelry sales go to support
Ekukhanyeni, the Home of Light and
Hope, a project that currently gives
lifesaving help to 600 orphans and
other impoverished children in South
Africa, and hopes to expand greatly
as the H.O.P.E. project
grows.
Many organizations do their
fundraising today through catalog
sales or selling those chocolate
bars seen in most high schools and
colleges. We are offering a way to
do the fundraising you may need for
your organization in a way that
quite literally feeds starving
children and gives people a way to
lift themselves out of abject
poverty.
The sale of H.O.P.E. jewelry
can be added to any other
fundraising program your
organization is already committed to
doing, and at any time during the
year. This program is fundamentally
about saving the lives of
impoverished children and women
right now, while ultimately
contributing to ending poverty in
the world. Being able to do this
invaluable service in a way that
also adds to your annual fundraising
is a bonus.
We hope that you will look at the
information here and choose to
purchase jewelry through H.O.P.E.
to use for fundraising. With every
purchase, you can know that you are
quite literally reaching across the
oceans to put food in the mouths of
starving children, and helping to
change the future for impoverished
women and the community in which
they live. Please join us in giving
hope to those in such desperate
need.
