It began as a way to clean up the environment and make something useful — and perhaps profitable.
The products … women’s clutches, shoulder bags and hip belts created out of candy wrappers, potato chip bags and cookie packages, are now selling on Web sites and in upscale U.S. boutiques for up to $200 apiece.
The nonprofit Group for the Promotion of Education and Sustainable Development (Grupedsac) develops initiatives near Mexico City to help lift the residents in poor communities out of poverty and into better living standards. Eventually, people in Florida admired the purses and wanted to purchase them in bulk to help the women. Sweetiepurse.com was born! … Thanks to AP for reporting on this wonderful development and providing the photo of women and colorful bags, via the Washington Post.
[…] A charity in Mexico (Grupedsac) founded by Stan and Elaine Cohen see Sweetiepurse. Support indigenous people and farmers to sell all kind of bags. Bags items such as hand bags, shoulder bags, coin purses and belts too all folded out of candy wrappers and other appropriated trash! Here the link to learn more about it! […]