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Raven + Lily is a non-profit studio dedicated to empowering impoverished women through design partnerships and micro-enterprise opportunities.




Every item in our store is hand-crafted with love. Your purchase not only provides a fair trade wage
for the women in our co-ops, but it also enables us to fund micro-enterprise loans, healthcare improvements,
and educational scholarships in our partnership communities. You are bringing hope and dignity to others
with every purchase! Click here to read what our proceeds have accomplished thus far.

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Why We Exist:
        
Our Values:
  • We are intentionally focused on creating economic opportunities for the disadvantaged.
  • We support women's empowerment programs that comply with fair trade standards. This ensures women are valued and rewarded for their work.
  • We seek transparency and accountability in all of our transactions.
  • We encourage our artisans to develop independence.
  • We desire all of our artisans to work in a safe and healthy environment.
  • We use recycled and remnant materials when possible.
  • Proceeds are sent back to the artisans' communities to help with education, healthcare and micro-loans.


Current Areas of Focus:

We focus on women because many women have little or no opportunity to rise above the cycle of poverty or their circumstances.
  • 70% of the world’s poorest people are women
  • 2/3 of those who cannot read or write are women
  • At least 2 million girls per year are at risk of undergoing Female Genital Mutilation
  • AIDS is becoming a women’s disease with women increasingly bearing the brunt of the epidemic
  • 80% of refugees & trafficking victims are women
  • 100 million girls are expected to enter forced marriages in the next decade


To learn more about Raven +Lily's Artisans, click here:
Africa Collection
India Collection
Los Angeles Collection

To Contact Raven + Lily, click here.






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