Our Beginnings
Sarah, a missionaries' daughter, said yes to creating a jewelry company that would employ young women who grew up at the children's home her parents helped to found and directed in Honduras. Three of these young women said yes to a part time job to launch the company. So in 2021, we began around a table on a porch in Honduras.
Alegria means JOY!
We are currently employing 7 young women full time in our (air-conditioned) office in Honduras handcrafting trendy, unique, high-quality jewelry that is sold online and in stores in the United States.
Our Quality
We proudly hand-craft every piece with hypoallergenic and generously plated or filled precious metals. Some pieces are solid sterling silver. Our crystals are polished glass, and won't cloud, darken or yellow. Our stones are genuine semi-precious and precious.
Our Joy-Creators
(aka our customers) are our heroes! Shopping our jewelry collection means jobs - it's that easy to empower talented, hard-working women in Honduras! Your shopping changes the lives of women and changes the trajectory of their families.
Our Joy-Partners
Are stores that carry our line! They have invested in inventory for their customers to shop and join the mission of creating jobs for women artisans in Honduras! We couldn't do what we do without these huge-hearted store owners and managers!
We are proudly Fair Trade Verified
What is Fair Trade? A commitment to fair wages, safe working conditions, abolishing slave and child labor, and working for a more inclusive opportunity for all.
And we prioritize people and planet first. Sourcing of our materials has been moved to 99% local sourcing within Honduras (which minimizes our carbon footprint with additional importing). We also use recycled materials and minimal packaging with QR codes to learn more about our story digitally to reduce waste. And we reuse or recycle shipping and packaging materials at our office in Indiana - please drop off any of your packaging you want us to reuse or recycle there!
We will continue to work for more ways to sustainably and responsibly source, produce and ship our products to you!