In addition to buying wonderfully designed jewellery in bespoke packaging your purchase helps various local communities around the world. For example, much of the Destino Jewellery, sterling silver and baltic amber jewellery is manufactured by crafters in Nepal whose livelihoods are largely tied to the export business.
Destino Jewellery, sterling silver baltic amber jewellery suppliers work closely with women’s groups such as the Educational Development of Women of Nepal (EDWON), founded by Bishnu Maya Pariyar. Bishnu Maya Pariyar was born in 1975 to a poor Dalit family of nine children in a remote village in Gorkha District in Western Nepal without access to electricity, sanitation, health care and vehicular roads. Her daily walk to school was four hours and she is passionate about ensuring children have access to education who are often marginalised due to financial hardship or their caste. Her educational programme brings together women from diverse castes who she actively encourages to integrate. In 2003, while Bishnu was pursuing a bachelor’s degree, she co-founded EDWON as a project to raise awareness in the West and to fund the work she begun in Nepal.
The establishment of this women’s cooperative enterprise has assisted disadvantaged Dalit women build self esteem and invest in their own community. Destino Jewellery, sterling silver and baltic amber jewellery from Nepal is manufactured by hand by fifteen to twenty families in Kathmandu and in the surrounding hills of their homes. The average annual family income in Nepal is about $300.00 so the hand made crafting of Destino Jewellery, sterling silver and baltic amber jewellery enables these workers to generate additional revenue for their families at their convenience.
Destino Jewellery organic gemstones are soured from Nepalese manufacturers with the primary aim to continue in the Latest Sale goal to support local communities and workers from independent manufacturers.