'World Style' Exhibitors Honored for Humanitarian Efforts by California Gift Show
GDA Staff -- Gifts and Dec, 8/9/2011 3:27:42 PM
Los Angeles - Merchandise Mart Properties Inc. and the California Gift Show honored five exhibitors as the winners of World Style Stories in Kentia Global Marketplace at the 3rd Annual World Style Stories Award Ceremony on July 21.
The winners include Healing the Wounded Heart Shop, Project Have Hope, Good Paper, Heavenly Treasures and Dunitz & Company Inc.
Over 30 exhibitors from Kentia Global Marketplace submitted essays recounting their experiences in creating their products and giving back to the communities around them. The essays were judged by a committee of VIP judges that emphasized the people or communities exhibitors benefitted, the impact on the country of origin, impact on the global market and the company's amount of time it has operated, as well as a "fan favorite" selected through Facebook votes.
Healing the Wounded Heart Project, based in Hue, Vietnam, stems from the nonprofit SPIRAL Foundation and the Office of Genetic Counseling and Disabled Children from Hue College of Medicine and Pharmacy. HWH employs 20 disabled artisans, providing them medical insurance, housing, a daily meal and a recreational allowance as well.
The Wounded Heart shop sells handicrafts made by the artisans using recycled materials.
Project Have Hope, a nonprofit for women in Uganda's Acholi Quarter, hires female artisans to craft jewelry from recycled paper and other materials, such as seeds, glass and bone. The profits help the women to establish additional income for activities through direct loans, vocational training and agricultural initiatives.
Good Paper distributes handmade, fair trade greeting cards and Cards from Africa, a line that creates jobs for young people in Rwanda who have been orphaned by genocide or diseases. Sanctuary Spring, Good Paper's newest line, focuses on job creation for women escaping human trafficking in the Philippines and rebuilding their lives.
Heavenly Treasure concentrates its efforts on orphans, the disabled, refugees, widows and others. Each handicraft sold represents a 'changed life.'
Dunitz and Company Inc., the Facebook fan favorite, sends profits from its fair-traded beaded jewelry to Puerta Abierta and Pueblo a Pueblo, two grassroots charities in Guatemala. The company has worked with communities in Guatemala since 1989.
Each exhibitor received a poster with his company's name to use at future trade shows and events.
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