As you know, I take the shopping small thing pretty seriously here at Southern Flair — especially during the holiday season. I love supporting local Louisiana brands even more when they can give back to other great causes or charities. Some even make a difference all across the world! Today, I’m sharing three local fashion brands that you can shop with this holiday season AND make a difference at the same time. Another great thing about these three businesses is they give back all year — not just during the holidays!
p.s. If you enjoy this story, there’s LOTS more in my Baton Rouge Holiday Shopping Guide! Get it here!
The Priceless Collection started off as a blog by Baton Rouge-native Rebekah Burch. Her blog, Praising Hands Traveling Shoes, focused on her mission trips and travel adventures to Honduras, Belize, Panama and the Dominican Republic. Her travels increased her awareness of human trafficking, and since women are purchased with coins and sold into the sex trade, she turns those coins into jewelry as a way to set those women free. In 2015, she founded The Priceless Collection and created a jewelry line centered around coins. With every purchase made, The Priceless Collection gives a portion of the proceeds to their partner organization, Freedom 418, to help women who have been rescued from the sex trade. You can shop more at thepricelessco.com
Hands Producing Hope is a Baton Rouge-based ethical fashion brand that employs marginalized individuals in Costa Rica and Rwanda. The women in these countries create HPH jewelry and accessories as means to support their families. Hands Producing Hope provides them with consistent income, education, life skills workshops and more. The artisans are paid above fair wage and are taught their dreams have value. In addition, HPH connects their artisans with local churches and missionaries and assists those who desire to return to school to earn a high-school diploma. You can shop necklaces, earrings, scarves, shirts and more! Learn about HPH at handsproducinghope.org
You can read a full interview with Hands Producing Hope’s founder Rebecca Garder in this post!
Southern Football Tees has donated nearly $50,000 to BRAF’s Louisiana Flood Relief Fund since August 2016. The donations were made in honor of the 2016 Cajun Navy Rescue Effort to directly assist the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank’s recovery. The Food Bank’s 1,700-square-foot warehouse took on four feet of water during the recent Louisiana flooding. SFT’s donation comes from the profits of its Cajun Navy t-shirt sales, in which they donated $15 per shirt through the month of September. SFT continues to donate a portion of the proceeds to the relief fund each month. SFT has also launched the Cajun Navy tee in black & gold and purple & gold, as well as children’s sizes. Shop them all at shopSFT.com
Read the full Cajun Navy story in this post and take a look at how this T-shirt brand continues to grow and support local in this post.
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