Guiding Star Earrings

Wear the North star and never lose your way. These classic post earrings are a timeless design. And the material used to create these earrings may surprise you! Brass from bomb casings is collected from the fields of Cambodia, and the artisans of the Rajana artisan group transform these bombshells into jewelry. Bombshell brass - 0.25D inches - Handcrafted in Cambodia

The Makers:

The Rajana Association is a nonprofit organization for income generation and skills training, producing fair trade products using traditional Cambodian skills with contemporary designs. The name Rajana means "design" in Khmer. Rajana Association focuses on the rural and urban poor, and small producers of handicrafts. Rajana trains young Cambodians in traditional craft–making skills, as well as in accounting, marketing, computer courses and English. Through development of traditional craft–making skills, Rajana helps maintain and rebuild Cambodia’s rich cultural traditions, damaged in the country’s wars.Rajana Association began in 1995 as an income–generating project of the British nongovernmental organization Southeast Asian Outreach UK. Since 2000 Rajana has been owned and operated by Cambodians. Ten Thousand Villages has been purchasing from Rajana since 2007.