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Fair Trade, jewelry, necklace, necklaces, Nonproft, prostitution, Trafficking, Uganda, Zion Project
The cold, hard facts are these: Forty-eight women are raped in Congo every hour. Every 26 seconds a child is taken from their home and forced into the sex industry. Some women are forced into prostitution in order to stay alive and are consequently outcasts, ostracized by society. Enter: Zion Project, an international 501c3 ministry whose mission is to offer counseling and teachings for girls and women caught in the global sex trade and communities affected by war.
ZP is of the belief that in order for war torn societies to truly recover, healing needs to stem from love, and come from the inside, out. Stella, a woman who attends ZP’s counseling seminar program, says, “Without the healing I wouldn’t have been able to learn the skills I have now, so I needed to learn that first to be successful. Now my heart is free.”
Based in the war ravaged area of northern Uganda, Zion Project also facilitates a Rescue Home program, a holistic after-care home for 17 young girls ages 5-15 who have been used, abandoned and abused in childhood prostitution. They’ve created the socially-conscious Jewelry business as well, where the women handcraft jewelry, taking pride in the fact that they can sustain themselves without selling their bodies, and create something fashionably beautiful in the process.
View some of the gorgeous, fair-trade jewelry below:
Safari Necklace
Shop here to support Zion Project’s multiple missions to spread the love, empower women and children, and help repair the emotionally (and physically) damaging effects that sex-trafficking has.
-Liz Crowder