Fair Trade
The Marketplace at Together Women Rise features partners that support gender equality around the world. Making it your first stop for gifts, home goods and more multiplies the power of your purchase by supporting women artisans and Together Women Rise. Support the partners below and find more at togetherwomenrise.org/the-marketplace.
As Founding Members of the Fair Trade Federation, Aid Through Trade empowers women in Nepal through fair and sustainable employment. Aid Through Trade created The Original Roll-On® Bracelet in 1993 and has been introducing new colors and patterns every season for the past 28 years. Together Women Rise customers receive 25 percent off their total order, and Together Women Rise receives 10 percent of proceeds when you enter code Rise25 in the gift card/discount code at checkout.
Persona Grata Goods is a social enterprise in Charlotte, North Carolina that invests in refugee women, providing a welcoming environment for them to practice English, build friendships with other women, and have flexible, sewing employment. The organization strives to use sustainable materials for all of its products, so most napkins and table runners are made from fabric deadstock or donations. When you buy napkins or kitchen towels through this link and enter code RISE at checkout, Persona Grata will donate 10 percent of the sales proceeds to Together Women Rise, and you’ll get an extra 5 percent off your purchase.
Books
Fiction
By Tsitsi Dangarembga
A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa’s 100 Best Books of the 20th Century, this novel brings to the politics of decolonization theory the energy of women’s rights. This book was featured in Together Women Rise’s January 2024 Book Club. (Interested in viewing other books that have been featured? Visit goodreads.com/group/show/208198-together-women-rise-book-club.)
Non-Fiction
By Kinari Webb
Featured in April 2024 at the Together Women Rise Book Club
Kinari is also the founder of Rise past grantee Health in Harmony.
Full of hope and optimism, Kinari Webb takes us on an exhilarating, galvanizing journey across the world, sharing her passion for the natural world and for humanity. In our current moment of crisis, Guardians of the Trees is an essential roadmap for moving forward and the inspiring story of one woman’s quest to heal the world.
When Webb first traveled to Indonesian Borneo at 21 to study orangutans, she was both awestruck by the beauty of her surroundings and heartbroken by the rainforest destruction she witnessed. As she got to know the local communities, she realized that their need to pay for expensive healthcare led directly to the rampant logging, which in turn imperiled their health and safety even further. Webb realized her true calling was at the intersection of medicine and conservation.
After graduating with honors from the Yale School of Medicine, Webb returned to Borneo, listening to local communities about their solutions for how to both protect the rainforests and improve their lives.
Films
From Amazon: ‘THE QUEST: Nepal’ is an epic one-of-a-kind 63 day Quest to deeper understand and climb the most iconic mountain in the world, Everest, while unveiling the fascinating culture, history and nature of Nepal.
From Amazon: This is a showcase of wildlife throughout the diverse landscape of this enthralling African country. From Tanzania’s oldest park, the Serengeti, famed for its annual migration, to the islands of Maziwe, Fanjovi and Chumbe, where marine conservationists work hard to preserve its fragile ecosystem, the series captures the pressures of natural and human threats on the Tanzanian flora and fauna.
