Jewelry School
Lori Connell
The Mi Esperanza jewelry school began in 2012 when Julie Lawson, an Orlando based jewelry designer began designing jewelry for the Mi Esperanza brand. Julie brought on 3 women that she taught skills specific to the pieces of jewelry she designing for Mi Esperanza. This has continued to be the model for our jewelry program. Currently there are 8 full time jewelry artisans that are growing their skills through work in our Jewelry studio.
In the summer of 2016 we held our first Jewelry 101 for a group of young girls from a girls home in Tegucigalpa and one young women who is from a street ministry with the goal to give them a trade skill they can use to obtain work or start a small business. We plan to continue jewelry 101 with more advanced skills and offer it to more women.
The cost of education a women through the jewelry program is $250.00. You can make a donation specific to this program in the donate area of this website.
To read about women who have benefited from our program visit out "real stories" section of our website.