Peace diamonds

I’m a girl who loves jewellery. Not the high value, need-to-take-out-insurance type, but the quirky, cheap and “this says who I am” type.

So it was no surprise to start fundraising with second hand jewellery. A group of five of us started with a handful of items, then we sent out letters to contacts, then the jewellery started to pour in. So far we have sent funds to charities helping homeless women, disabled, food banks, and children who needed heart surgery in Israel. The money has gone to both Jew and Arab – just in case you were wondering.

We have our stalls in our homes, local craft markets, local fruit markets (!), conferences, churches, cinemas. In fact anywhere where we can roll out our stall.

Our road map to peace is done one pair of earrings at a time.