Ninety percent of our baby booties were commissioned from women’s sewing cooperatives overseas. Not only was this consistent with our desire to see women benefit from fairly paid work, but it gave us beautifully crafted, ethnically diverse baby booties to display.
Women in Dallas, the US, and around the world donated baby booties as well. We thank them for their support and generosity.
We impacted the lives of 500 women in 30 countries, enabling them to provide over 20,000 nourishing, substantial meals for family members. Your gifts made this possible. Thank you!
The women used their income to buy better food, medical care, and schooling for their children. This is a perfect example of the girl effect. When women earn income, they return 90% of it to their families.
A grandmother in Uganda used all her earnings to save the life of her one-year old grandson, born with AIDS. Today he is a healthy, bouncing four-year old.
Scroll to the bottom of this page to see a sampling of baby booties produced around the world.
Many of these cooperatives were formed to help the most vulnerable women.
Many of the cooperatives were formed by nonprofits working to help particularly vulnerable women.
The other cooperatives work with marginalized women who don’t necessarily fall in one of those categories.
Some women have have worked in astonishing ways to overcome adversity. A grandmother in Uganda literally saved her grandson’s life with money earned making baby booties. Women in Rwanda have trained and provided work for numerous other women in their neighborhood, and two teenage sisters in Afghanistan supported a family of ten through knitting. Other women tell less dramatic (but equally heroic!) stories of a daily struggle to provide.
The poster in the photo reads:
“EDUCATION IS THE LIGHT TO SUCCESS. Because we make paper beads that mothers decorate on baby booties, we have been able to earn money and buy books for our Studies. Thank you Maama Beverly hill for giving us this bussiness.! UE (Uganda Empowers) Volunteers (girls)”
See more stories and photos on our Blog/News page (click on any story; a sidebar of categories will appear on the right; click Women’s Cooperatives).
You can read about individual countries and cooperatives by clicking on the links below.
