" No matter how down the women in the refugee camp were, they always found a way to express themselves with beautiful jewelry and clothes they made from what they had ... Some people may say, 'Why should a girl who comes from a place where people struggle to get food care about fashion or jewelry?' But I believe that your spirit wants beauty no matter your conditions. Even something as ugly as a bullet that was fired in a war can be made beautiful if you are willing to work to change it into something else."
Lovetta Conto
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
lovetta conto: from bullets to beauty
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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