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NEWS
07.13 | PRESS
07.01 | EVENT
BUY BACK THE BOMBS Party introducing the peaceBOMB bracelet. The Randolph NYC | July 1st
Population : 6 million
Subsistence agriculture accounts for approximately half of the GDP and provides 80% of employment
Families eat what they harvest, leaving little opportunity to sell and generate disposable income.
Handcrafts diversify income sources and present an opportunity for women to become active contributors to the economic well-being of their families.
The most heavily bombed country in history: 1964-1973, the US dropped 250 million bombs, averaging 1-B52 bomb load every 8 minutes, 24/7 for 9 years.
Fairly traded fashion artifacts are made according to ancient time intensive and eco-friendly traditions including:
CULTIVATION of organic and conventional silk and cotton
NATURAL DYEING with indigo leaves, seeds, resin, mud, bark
HAND WEAVING produces 20-120 cm of fabric per day
METALSMITHING with war scrap metal
Fabric bags woven and constructed in Laos are juxtaposed with remnants of the highest quality leather used to refurbish jet planes, applied in NYC by a luxury leather accessories workshop.
The peaceBOMB Project combines human ingenuity and aluminum war scrap metal to create bracelets that tell a story about their makers and the legacies of our shared history.
Each purchase supports the artisan families in Naphia Village and includes a donation to the community bank / micro-credit fund and a larger fund to promote sustainable economic development.
In collaboration with the Rural Income through Sustainable Energy Project of Swiss NGO, Helvetas, ARTICLE 22 also works to improve the supply chain of scrap bomb metal from collection to production.
