Cream Handwoven Hammock Chair

Description

Is there a more hammock-friendly country than Nicaragua?

There, hammocks are omnipresent. Every hotel, home, café and market flaunts their hammocks in front of you; ‘Come’, they seem to whisper, ‘get in, bring your book. Whatever it is you think you have to do, or wherever it is you think you have to be, you don’t. All will be well with the world if you envelope yourself in my fabric folds’.

Bring a piece of the Nicaragua chill into your home or garden with these beautiful fair trade hammock chairs.

Approximate size

152 cm L x 100cm W.

Material: Cotton. Holds up to 115 kg’s.

Cushion shown in the picture is not included.

Care

Can be hand-washed

How your purchase can make a difference

Known as the “land of lakes and volcanoes” Nicaragua is also home to the second-largest rainforest of the Americas and a popular tourist destination. However it is also among the poorest countries in the Americas and 48% of the population of Nicaragua live below the poverty line, with 79.9% of the population living on less than $2 per day

Fairtrade benefits to communities

Your purchase will help support families like  Don Leopoldo Potosme and Sara in the ceramic community of San Juan de Oriente, Nicaragua.

In this community house and workshop are often integrated as one. The home of Leopoldo and Sara is no different, and with nine family members sharing the space, they literally eat, sleep and breathe pottery. The Potosme family has four children, two of whom, with their spouses, help to produce the orders for Women of the Cloud Forest.

With the proceeds from their Fair Trade crafts they have been able to send their youngest son to medical school!

About the suppliers

Women of the Cloud Forest has been working in fair trade since 2001 and have direct, long-term relationships with small family workshops and cooperatives in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Peru. In addition to placing consistent orders with their artisan partners, they provide business training and product development/design and offer no-interest micro-loans and direct grants for workshop capacity building.

This holistic approach to business enables their artisan partners to grow their businesses and access new markets without creating cycles of dependency.