At Love Welcomes, we’re known for creating beautiful, handmade products with refugee women, but our mission goes much deeper. Over the past year we’ve been partnering with organisations and teams across the world to bring you our Shared Trade Collections. This has allowed us to support displaced women from all walks of life, whether affected by war, poverty, climate breakdown, or trafficking. Our products are more than beautiful, provide skills training, emotional support, and group-based healing to displaced women, we help these women stitch their lives back together after unimaginable trauma.
Rise Beyond the Reef empowers rural indigenous women in Fiji by providing skills training in traditional crafts, allowing them to earn sustainable incomes while preserving their cultural heritage and improving their family’s well-being. These women gain economic independence and leadership roles, creating a brighter future for their communities. Their pieces, whether woven or printed, sewn or dyed, have brought so much colour and joy to our lives already. Dare we say it, but we cannot wait to hang their stockings and decorations on our tree this year!