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Supporting the global growth of women microenterprises
• NAWBOGear products are here! Up from the Dust has been chosen as one of the 2008 winners. • Want to host an Up from the Dust home party? Or a virtual home party? Contact us today to schedule a party! Give your friends an
opportunity to help women worldwide.
• Listen to Mary Schnack's Internet radio interview on One Big Life.
• Read an article published on Up from the Dust.
• Up from the Dust gift certificates now availible. Give!
• Read Mary's Blog
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“Mary,
we really appreciate your generous donation to our chapter and were
glad to have the opportunity to support the terrific work you are doing
to support women around the world with Up from the Dust. It was great
to be reminded that women need to think globally now, not just locally.”
Cathy Feldman NAWBO-Santa Barbara Program Co-chair
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Featured Women Artists
Beautiful scarves, delicate floral brooches, and scented sachets. The women of Anatolia, the peninsular region that comprises the greater Asian part of Turkey, are the best masters in their field. Each scarf, sachet, or brooch that you buy is unique and special. This project was originally to help unemployment in big cities through incorporating the unemployed woman into the workforce to make and sell the handiworks traditionally taught to them since childhood. It soon expanded after the discovery of the heritage being lost in the Anatolia region of Turkey, due to the lack of market for their skills. Due to the closed economy policies of the past, the masters of the traditional arts had fallen into economic difficulties for lack of demand. Now, the traditional handicrafts are being recognized as "world heritage." In every product, you will share the cultural riches of many years and find aesthetic differences.
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Up from the Dust
brings beautiful handmade products to the U.S. marketplace that helps
support and economically empowers women around the world. We import
jewelry, purses, and home decor from women entrepreneurs in Kenya,
South Africa, Ghana, Guatemala, Egypt, Cambodia, Afghanistan, India,
Palestine, and China. We target our sales to women in business so they
can enjoy these unique products and help support their sisters in
business worldwide. We continue to develop new relationships with
women entrepreneurs in many other countries.
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