Cafe Beaded Necklace - Navy and Cream
This simple and elegant necklace is created using quality small glass beads. Blue and Cream is always a lovely fresh colour combination.
This necklace looks just perfect with a T'Shirt or light summer dress, not fussy, just simple and very pretty. It also looks gorgeous layered with other complimentary chains or a scarf.
- Ethically made in Haiti
- 82cm long
- Quality Glass Beads
- Navy Blue and Cream beads.
The Haiti Design Company jewellery team work under the banner of 2nd Story Goods. HDC is known as “Ekip Fanm Djanm” in Haiti, and means 'Team of Strong Women'. The income from this jewellery means everything to each of these women. In Haiti there is no government support for families, and no unemployment services. This income means food and safe shelter for these women and their children.
Every product these artisans are able to make, and export is a small miracle. A marker of their amazing resilience and determination.
2nd Story Goods was established by Kathy Brooks, she is an amazing lady who made a conscious decision to work to empower women in nations where there is embedded poverty. She works in Haiti, where they call her 'Mumma Kat'.
Kathy established 2nd Story Goods for conscious consumers who seek to buy products that empower and value the makers, and give the makers a wage that enables them to survive and thrive.
2nd Story Goods provides an ethical, Fair Trade Marketplace for artisan makers in Haiti. 2nd Story Goods supports and trains artisan jewellery makers, leather workers and clothing makers, ensuring each maker receives a Living Wage, which is around 5 times as much as the Haitian minimum wage.
Every item we receive from 2nd Story Goods is sustainable, with focus on reuse of resources, and many products made from recycled and reused textiles. .
Haiti is an extremely dangerous, poorly governed, economically distressed nation in the Caribbean. This small nation has a long history of being exploited by larger richer nations. Every product made and exported from this small distressed nation is a small miracle, a sign of the makers resilience and strength in the midst of chaos and poverty.
All of our products are packaged and shipped to you from our store in Melbourne, Victoria by our small team. We use FSC certified paper bags that are padded with recycled paper pulp. When your products don't fit in one of our parcel bags, we try and reuse boxes that have been sent to us.
Postage is $12.00 flat rate, 15.00 for express in Australia, $15.00 flat rate for New Zealand and FREE POSTAGE for orders over $200.00*.
We usually ship your order within 2 business days through Australia Post. Express Post is also available and can be selected at checkout.
Hampers
*When ordering more than one hamper or gift pack you will need to fill out our order form where you will then be contacted by our staff with a postage quote.
Gift Wrapping
We will happily gift wrap products for an extra $2. This can be added at checkout along with a short note to the person receiving the gift.
When purchasing multiple products don't forget to include in your order notes if you would like the products to be wrapped separately or all together. Around Christmas time, please specify if it is a Christmas gift or not so we can choose the wrapping paper accordingly.
Our products are a curated selection of intentional and purposeful items which work towards alleviating global issues and inequities. Many of our products hold Fair Trade Certifications from the World Fair Trade Organisation, Fair Trade Australia & New Zealand as well as sustainable textile certifications such as the GOTS Certification. Read more about our product selection process here.