Fair Trade
This basket from Global Handmade Hope is fairly traded and sustainably made by a women’s cooperative in Rwanda.
- 13” x 10” x 2”
- Fair trade, made in Rwanda
$45.53
Cravens Coffee Organic Fair Trade Gourmet Specialty Whole Bean Coffee
This is a warm and richly flavored coffee, with a sweet, bright, lime, butterscotch profile. This light roast coffee is grown at high elevation near the gorilla habitat in the mountains of Central Rwanda, and produced by a majority female (80 percent) workforce. This Certified Organic and Certified Fair Trade small-farm coffee has been carefully cultivated under sustainable crop conditions designed to reduce soil erosion, conserve local wildlife and preserve the rain forests.
- Fair trade, organic
- Grown in Rwanda by a majority female workforce
$16.20
Books
Non-Fiction
A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity
By Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (Knopf, 2014)
This road map to effective global citizenship includes both Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE) and Dining for Women. Learn more about making a difference throughout the world.
“A Path Appears” offers practical, results-driven advice on how best each of us can give and reveals the lasting benefits we gain in return. Kristof and WuDunn know better than most how many urgent challenges communities around the world face toÂday. Here they offer a timely beacon of hope for our collective future.
As We Forgive: Stories of Reconciliation from RwandaÂ
By Catherine Claire Larson (Zondervan, 2009)
Inspired by the award-winning film of the same name, this book explores how Rwanda is addressing perceptual, social-psychological, and spiritual dimensions to achieve a more lasting peace.
Films
The remarkable story of Ingoma Nshya, Rwanda’s first and only women’s drumming troupe. The women, from both sides of the Rwandan conflict, band together to heal. The also start the country’s first ice cream shop, Inzozi Nziza (Sweet Dreams).
Coming soon to iTunes, Netflix and other digital platforms.
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Directed by Laura Waters Hinson and narrated by Mia Farrow, this is the award-winning documentary of two Rwandan women who struggle with the face-to-face encounter with the men who slaughtered their families during the 1994 genocide. These women and men speak for a nation still wracked by the grief of a genocide that killed one in eight Rwandans.
Music
This is a compilation of Rwandan gospel and traditional music performed by various artists.
Rwanda – Court Songs for Inanga and popular songs
These historical songs have been passed down through the generations. The music is played on an inanga, a traditional African instrument.