Practically born into the civil war that raged through her home country of Liberia for over a decade, designer Lovetta Conto spent the majority of her childhood living in Ghana's Buduburam refugee camp, waiting for peace. It was there that, at age 12, she met Cori Stern, founder of The Strongheart Fellowship, a program designed to help gifted young people, who have been orphaned or uprooted by war, create businesses to benefit their communities. Conto was chosen as the first Strongheart Fellow, and Akawelle, the beautiful line of jewelry she designs, made with bullet casings from the Liberian civil war, was born. Check out the video below:
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