BEER POT CANDLE

Beer Pot Candle

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: SOUTH AFRICA

A hand coiled ceramic pot stained a rich chestnut color, the ludziwo is an item commonly found in households throughout Swaziland. Although these small jugs are typically used as beer drinking pots, the ever-innovative women of Gone Rural have filled them with wax to create a distinctive candle. Light the candle to feed the flames of social change-rural Swazi women use the profits to support AIDS orphans and a variety of poverty alleviation programs.

Each candle comes in a recycled gift box.4" diameter x 3" high

CRAFTED BY GONE RURAL

Gone Rural is a Swaziland-based company that is committed to empowering rural women, alleviating poverty, and supporting AIDS orphans. The seven hundred women who work for Gone Rural apply traditional techniques to hand-create culturally distinct Swazi products using locally available and sustainable natural resources. Most women use the native lutindzi grass, which is dyed and woven by hand into baskets, mats and other items. Other women shape, polish, and fire clay vessels to be used in the home or in traditional ceremonies such as weddings or funerals. In addition to the vital employment the company provides, Gone Rural's non-profit arm offers an AIDS education program, pays school fees for AIDS orphans, and serves as a community advocate for better government services such as the provision of clean and safe drinking water. Currently, each woman that works for Gone Rural is supporting an average of eight children, and in most cases, Gone Rural provides their only source of income.

Fair Trade Products: Global Goods Partners