One trip through our PairingsWineandCheese.com website and it may or may not be obvious that we have a philosophy here at PWC to try to do the right thing. How we achieve this is something we talk about at every meeting.
One way is to support an artist in South Africa who in turn has created jobs for over 350 people. Here is a brief story of Carrol Boyes as noted on the Handcrafted Accessories page of our website:
Inspired by and firmly rooted in South Africa, Carrol Boyes artisan products, imbued in their own eccentric soul, have seduced imaginations the world over.
Carrol started designing and making her pewter cutlery 18 years ago in her own basement, but the phenomenal demand for these fun and quirky items meant growth.
Carrol looked to the rural community in South Africa’s tropical Limpono Valley, where the impoverished Shangaan people had an age-old talent for three-dimensional design though their tradition of wood-carving. Not only were they a natural choice to be the crafters at the factory, but also this welcome employment opportunity mean they could live in dignity and feed their families.
Today the factory employs over 350 people — each one of them providing for up to ten other family members.
The Carrol Boyes corkscrew, cheese boards and cheese knives offered at PairingsWineandCheese.com are truly pieces of art—functional art.
Use them and be inspired.
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