Our Bead Challenge....

Everyday 100’s of beads are traded on the global market. Many beads are mass produced in low wage third world factories. The growing Fair Trade movement is trying to change that trend.

The lives of the poor African beaders, mainly women, living on $2 a day can be changed. Abantu’s next project is to try and lift at least one of these ladies out of poverty, simultaneously caring for the environment, by recycling our old beads and creating fresh new looks and designs.

Abantu would like to help employ women beaders in the town of Makapanstad, South Africa. Hopefully leading to the employment of many more women in this underprivileged community. So please join Abantu by recycling your old beads or that Christmas present you weren’t too fond of, lying in your jewellery box. We will send them off to ’The heartfelt bead project’ team in Makapanstad where they will be transformed by a talented beader, who will be paid for each item made.

Wouldn’t it be great to see your beads looking beautiful again, knowing that they have made a difference to the lives of someone less fortunate than yourself?

So please bring in all your old beads and pop them into the bead basket at Abantu. Please feel free to chat more to us about our bead initiative, inspired by one of our customers. Together, through fair trade initiatives like this one we can help make a small difference –
believe in people and they will believe in themselves.
Thank you very much.
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