Here's how Jan and Claudia met:
Jan met Claudia last year in San Miguel de Allende Mexico and was struck by Claudia's jewelry designs, her lovely persona, and how popular her jewelry was with the tourists and locals that stopped by her table at the Saturday Organic market. But when Claudia explained how she teaches 6 women at a correctional facility how make the jewelry, and that she pays them a wage much higher than the other work projects, Jan was impressed and touched.
After meeting over coffee, Jan and Claudia learned they were kindred spirits and shared many things in common. Jan decided to launch a Kickstarter project to help Claudia start this ETSY shop. With the generous support of people in the U.S., U.K, Mexico, Canada and Norway, their Kickstarter project was funded. Claudia is working with the women in the CERESO prison to create jewelry to sell on ETSY. Claudia's dream, however, is to sell in shops throughout the U.S. View their Kickstarter video here.
Claudia is so dearly committed to teaching Mexican women of little resources to improve their lives, growing Claudia's business means helping other women. Every piece of jewelry sold on ETSY provides money to pay Claudia's small team of women in the CERESO prison to make another piece of jewelry and save money to send home to their families.
Claudia and Jan decided to create a blog to document their journey together as they continue their projects with the women and CERESO in addition to their own creative endeavors.
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