Multi ring necklace in recycled copper

Celebrate your unique beauty and empower other women at the same time with this gorgeous copper necklace.

Handcrafted by a group of Zambian artisans, each piece is crafted from recycled hot water heaters (geysers) and electrical wire and made with respect for fair labour practices. With every purchase, you help to support these talented women and enable them to use their trade as a means to lift their lives. You feel good and know that you're doing something good at the same time.

• Empowering women
• Use of recycled materials
• Eco-friendly
• Fair labour practices

“An amazing transformation takes place when discarded electrical wire and a corroded copper hot water heater is hacked apart with a chisel, cleaned up and recycled or upcycled and discarded electrical wire into jewellery. A group of young, inexperienced women, have undergone a similar metamorphosis; with no previous jewellery making experience have taught themselves metalsmithing using copper. Their skills have continually expanded and some women were trained in silversmithing.

 For women to make metal jewellery in Zambia defies gender norms. Women generally do not use tools, particularly hammers, power tools, or torches. Typically, a women’s initiative is expected to sew or knit.

It’s truly amazing to watch the women deftly work with their tools and create their designs while empowering themselves.”

Dawn Close, Founder