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Recycled Plastic Advertising Billboard Coin Purses -Fair Trade-India

$6.95 USD

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Made from recycled billboards, these coin purses are a great way to support the environment. Discarded and rejected billboards are collected from scrap shops around the city and converted into these innovative, utility products by women artisans trained at SPEED Trust, Chennai, India. SPEED Trust works with women from the urban slums of the city. These women work from the organization's production center. Apart from the products being sold through the SPEED Trust shop in India, these fair trade bags are exported to several countries like the United States.

Measure 5” high x 3-3/4” wide when closed
One stuff pocket and one zipper pocket
Choose from 1 coin purse or a set of 5 coin purses
No one bag is alike, please mention if you have specific color requirements. We will try to accommodate your request.

Handmade in India and fair trade imported.

About the Artisans

Working with more than 100 individual carvers in Machakos, Kenya, Jedando Modern Handicrafts markets African handicrafts primarily made of wood and bone worldwide. Carving is a tradition in Kenya with the children learning the craft from their parents. Carved by hand using only rudimentary hand tools, olive wood bowls, salad serving sets, and animal-shaped napkin rings take shape from pieces of olive wood, mahogany, and mpingo, or "African Ebony."
An integral part of the organization's function is to educate the craftspeople on the need for reforestation to enable the products to be available for years to come and offer a sustainable income for generations. While wood carving provides the major income for many in the Machakos area, other craftspeople earn a living by further enhancing the products including painting the napkin rings and carving discarded animal bone for the handles of salad serving sets. Often the bone is "batiked" by placing wax on the white bone and dipping the bone a dark brown/black dye, resulting in patterns African mud cloth designs.