GlobeIn Partners with Watsi for September Artisan Wellness Box
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- GlobeIn, an online marketplace focused on empowering artisans from around the world to bring their handcrafted products to global markets, and Watsi, a non-profit global funding platform for medical treatments, have partnered for GlobeIn's September Artisan Box themed 'The Wellness Box'.
The Artisan Box is a monthly subscription box featuring beautiful, distinct products that support remote artisans and farmers. The September 'Wellness Box' is a unique and one of a kind package to help maintain life balance. This co-branded, curated Wellness Box includes a bevy of items that support a healthy mind, body and soul, including:
Blessing Bag, $12 – Handmade in Ghana
Each Blessing Bag is lined with upcycled water sachets that would otherwise clog street gutters and landfills in Ghana.
Eye Pillow, $13 – Handmade in Peru
Each eye pillow is handmade by Shipibo artisans, a peoples found in a remote part of the Amazon River basin. The fabric is hand-woven from cotton, dyed with mahogany bark, and hand-painted using a pointed piece of bamboo using the juice of a local berry.
Baobab Superfruit Powder, $9.99 – Hand Harvested in Benin, Africa
The fruits are hand-harvested by producer families and processed by a women's co-op using age-old indigenous methods of transformation in a modern, clean facility. The money they earn provides their families with better access to health care, improved nutrition and puts more children in school.
Palm Leaf Basket, $12 - Handwoven in Oaxaca, Mexico
For each artisan involved, basket-weaving means a stable monthly income used for building a house, starting a small business, or purchasing food and medicine. For the people of the Mixteca region, basket-weaving is a way of life that also sustains life.
$5 Watsi Gift Card
With this gift card, GlobeIn subscribers can help support a patient's medical needs on Watsi.com.
Subscribe now until September 15th to get the September Artisan Box which is as low as $30 per month. To further health and wellness around the world, 50% of profits from the Wellness Box will be donated to patients on Watsi.
About GlobeIn: GlobeIn is a social business that empowers remarkable, remote artisans by giving them global reach. Through our subscription box and online shop, we delight our mindful customers with crafted, distinct goods and the stories about how our artisans created them. Visit www.GlobeIn.com
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