There is something very unique and dear about knowing the person who carefully handcrafted the bag or earrings you’re wearing.  It builds a connection to a piece that no mass-produced accessory can achieve.  Well Five Accessories, a Fair Trade, eco-friendly social enterprise is taking that concept to do good – five individuals at a time.

Five Accessories’ mission is to ‘empower and deliver sustainable livelihoods for workers and their communities through the sale of eco friendly and fair trade locally made products.’  Their artisans create handbags, sustainable jewelry and recycled purses that are sold in over 100 stores nationwide.  Their most recent products feature their Cambodia, Bali and Chicago lines.

Five Accessories and Roozt want to share the power of people-to-people businesses by giving away a free Calypso bag and wallet and keychain to three lucky winners!  All the items were created from recycled mosquito nets and the wallets were specially handcrafted by Sophea, chief tailor for Smateria in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.  Sophea started working with Five Accessories’ Cambodia partners, Smateria, back in 2005.  She was unemployed at the time and her husband was a moto taxi driver.  She has risen from being a cleaner of recycled mosquito netting used for bags and has now made enough to purchase a house for her family in the countryside where she is from.  Like all of the company’s partners, Smateria uses Fair Trade labor practices to ensure that the workers are treated with respect and paid fairly.

Enter for your chance to win one of these handmade accessories by following the contest rules below!