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Kanako Nomura, Nom Design

Nom Design, offering polymer clay accessories, was started in 2017 by Kanako Nomura because she likes making accessories. Nom called the business after herself. Her business goals include simply carrying on doing what she enjoys.

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Kadijatu Sesay, Mama & Pikin

Kadijatu Sesay started her business, Mama and Pikin, in 2019 because she wanted to share her passion for the cuisine of her homeland, Guinea Conakry, especially its famous sesame-based sweets.

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Gay Therese Baker, Gap Flat Track Native Foods

Inspired by her family history of farming and needing to support herself as a single mum, Gay Therese Baker started her own farming business, Gap Flat Track Native Foods, in July 2019.

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Celeste Iannotta, YOU ME OURS

YOU ME OURS, started in 2019 is the reiteration of an earlier business by Celeste Ianott.
A lifelong passion for creating skincare and natural products from natural sources has led Celeste to set up YOU, ME OURS, which offers a range of organic earth-sourced skincare and wellbeing items made from clays and plants known to indigenous Australians, and which Celeste hopes will soon become popular with everyone else.

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Minerva Jimenez, MINJUMS FOODS

MINJUMS FOODS was born through a desire to create a product with no allergens. After Minerva’s daughter, Sofia was detected to have an allergy to cow’s milk and soy, Minerva realized how difficult it was to find a suitable product.

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Nikki Hind, Blind Grit

Nikki had long dreamed of being a fashion designer: she entered her first collection in a bi-annual marie claire fashion design competition in 2015. It was the ‘wrong’ year; however, the magazine’s editors were interested in Nikki’s designs and story, and their encouragement helped give Nikki the impetus to launch Blind Grit into the world.

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Emma Avery, Cloth Baby

Cloth Baby is Emma Avery’s new business, started in 2019. The idea came to her after she had her first baby and found herself overwhelmed by choice when it came to choosing cloth nappies.

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Tarnya Bruineir, Gourmet You

Tarnya Bruineir established Gourmet You in September because family members were having problems with bowel disease and food intolerances. She wanted to be able to create flavourful gourmet meals for them that everyone could safely enjoy.

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Lila Bate, bVitra

Established in 2017, bVitra is Lila Bate’s response to finding out how so many commercial bath and body care products, toiletries like bath bombs, for instance are full of toxic and synthetic ingredients.

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Joanne Diver, The Backyard Garden Enthusiast

Joanne Diver’s business, The Backyard Garden Enthusiast, started accidentally after she began potting up Bottle Tree seedlings that were popping up in her backyard.

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Khushdilben Chokshi, Aum Yoga and Ayurveda Clinic

Khushdilben Chokshi started out in her business, Aum Yoga and Ayurveda Clinic, in September 2014. Wanting to share the expertise she has gained over 20 years as a practitioner, Khushdilben offers people the chance to achieve balance in their lives by combining two practices: Yoga and Ayurveda. Yoga is the traditional spiritual science of India, explains Khushdilben and Ayurveda is the Indian holistic system based on the belief that health and wellness depend on a balance between the mind, body, and spirit. Combining the two, she says, gives a deep understanding about an individual and creates self-awareness.

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Cheryl Tomlinson, Your End of Life Guide

Cheryl Tomlinson started her business, Your End of Life Guide, when she decided to become her own boss in 2017. A unique business providing support, education and advocacy for Estate and End of Life Planning, Your End of Life Guide helps people in their twilight years plan what needs to be done before they die.

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Ekhlass Nasir, Ekhlass Sweets

Wanting to share her love of Sudanese sweets led Ekhlass Nasir to start her business in 2019.

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Aysha Navlakhi, Events by Aysha

Brisbane-based Aysha Navlakhi runs Events by Aysha, a business she established in 2017, offering a range of products along with events styling and catering services. Creating Events by Aysha was a natural progression for Aysha since she was already regularly cooking and helping out at events like school functions, kids’ parties and even weddings.

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Maureen Regan – The Gut Shoppe

Maureen Regan describes her business, The Gut Shoppe, as a wellbeing/food business. She sells hot soups, Kombucha and other products at the Northside and Southside farmers’ markets in Canberra.

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Roji Bhattarai – Nepali Mitho Momo

Roji Bhattarai’s business name, Nepali Mitho Momo, means ‘yummy Nepalese momos’. Roji’s momos are special because they’re vegetarian and made from a recipe taught to Roji by her own mother.

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Sufia Alamgir – Sound Spell

Sufia Alamgir knows how important it is for kids to get the right start when it comes to learning to read. After years of teaching and researching how best to teach reading to children this year she created a business – Sound Spell, offering services to help parents teach reading to their children.

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Edith Muruka – MELT

Canberra-based Edith Muruka came from Kenya to Australia several years ago. She’s now putting her life experiences to good use in her business, MELT, a multicultural support and capacity building initiative aiming to strengthen women as community builders.

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Monique Sinclaire

Monique Sinclaire operates her business using her own name. She is launching on the 10th of December 2018, which is significant to her because on this day in 1982, she emigrated with her family from the Netherlands to Australia. Her business also signifies a new chapter in her life.

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Suzanne Fletcher – Tidy Canberra Gardens

Suzie became interested in plants at the age of 12, and by the time she was 19 she was employed as a Horticultural apprentice.

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Fiona Ware – Charming Charlie and the Spectacular Sophia

Fiona Ware has created her business from her children’s book –– Charming Charlie and the Spectacular Sophia – which came out in July 2017.

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Hajra Akber – El Bamal

Originally from Pakistan, Hajra Akber came to Australia in 1982 as an infant on her mother’s lap. Her business, El Bamal offers cotton net bags, honey, and ‘nearly natural’ nail polishes.

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Hollie Johnson – Punk Nouveau Therapy

Originally from the US, Brisbane-based Hollie Johnson came to Australia after living in China. Her business is Punk Nouveau Therapy, offering a variety of alternative healing modalities to deal with a wide range of issues, from allergies to trauma to dyslexia to pain management.

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Emily Petering – Emily The Maker

Emily is a Maker, Baker and a Beautiful Thing Creator – she established her business Emily The Maker in 2017 after completing Sister School. Emily The Maker offers a variety of products ranging from fibre arts and crafts, baked goods and printed items like her personalised stationery range.

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Maya Sonji – Drop20deals

Maya Sonji is driven to make the world a healthier place – her business Drop20deals – which she started in 2017 provides online access to fitness and health related opportunities.

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Shahla Namvar – Sculptures of the Earth

Sculptures of the Earth is Shahla Namvar’s business, offering handcrafted items from only natural materials such as wood, leather and shells.

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Ruth Aria – Curvy Beauty

Ruth Aria’s business, Curvy Beauty, offers a line of clothing designed to flatter curvy women, made from breathable natural fabrics.

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Raeesa Khatree – Edible Love by Rae

Raeesa established her business, Edible Love by Rae, a year ago, delivering gourmet cupcakes. Since starting out, Edible Love by Rae has expanded – offering cupcakes, high-end one-off cake art creations, bakes and other edible delights.

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Carla Risco Rodriguez – TREE KID

Chilean-born Carla Risco Rodriguez set up her Reservoir-based business TREE KID in 2018 while attending Sister School. TREE KID offers colourful clothes for children using unusual long wearing fabrics and environmentally friendly dyes.

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Amy Nguyen’s – Zen Tea Lounge

Amy Nguyen’s business is Zen Tea Lounge, supporting local disadvantaged migrant women. She started off with an online tea retail outlet two years ago and has now progressed to opening premises in Smithfield. Zen Tea Lounge is now a venture comprising a Tea House, a restaurant and the wholesale of tea.

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Marnin Studio

Marnin Studio is based at Marninwarntikura Women’s Resource Centre in Fitzroy Crossing, the heart of the Kimberley, Western Australia.

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Indigiearth

Sharon Winsor, a Ngemba Weilwan woman of Western NSW, established her business Indigiearth to bring Australian natural products and ingredients to people across the country, offering a wide range of goods such as jams, sauces, chutneys, herbs and spices, herbal teas, biscuits, chocolate coated macadamia nuts, and native skincare products.

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Maryan Aziz – Ma-aki Soy

Maryan Aziz came to Australia from Sudan as a six-year- old. She started her Sydney-based business, Ma-aki Soy in 2016, offering beautiful natural soy candles.

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Florence Olugbemiro – Designed by Florence

Florence Olugbemiro is the founder of Designedbyflorence. An 18 month old business that is inspired by the vivacious colours of Africa attracting lovers of creativity, colours and couture. We started with upcycling high-waisted skirts with pockets and ended with African Dolls and earrings.

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Made by our sisters with love

Meet the makers who created the Artisan Christmas hampers. Our Sisters and Artisans have put together an amazing curated selection of gourmet home made treats and Christmas decorations created with love and packed with pride.
By purchasing our Artisan boxes, you’re supporting:
– Business income for 28 Australian women
– Fulfilling employment for 11 people with disabilities
– Hundreds of women in our SisterTribe

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Jessica Hughes – Jams for a Cause

Queensland based Jessica Hughes, mum of three and founder of Jams For A Cause isn’t only an entrepreneur, she’s a registered nurse, a chef and community leader – all things which, in one respect or another, have come together in her business idea.

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An Le – Gifted + Fearless

Global Sister An Le is in the business of providing ethical gifts: care packages for women going through hard times – ‘a warm hug in a box,’ she calls it.

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Vikki James – Lewah Bowtique

Vikki James loves making pretty bows for little princesses and princesses at heart. Her business is Lewah Bowtique – the ‘Lewah’ comes from how her little boy used to say ‘water’. She started making the bows back in 2005 but four young children came along which meant she had to take a break. Along with bows for little girls, Lewah Bowtique also offers sets of bows for team activities.

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Careworks Sewing

Careworks Sewing, a community-based sewing and alteration program, is named after the larger organization it belongs to, the not for profit entity Northern Community Careworks Ltd.

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Indija Mahjoeddin

As a freelance artist Adelaide-born Indija Mahjoeddin operates her business under her own name. Her enterprise currently offers tiny sculptures and wearable art made of porcelain and silver. She is always branching out though – another project in the pipeline is making chocolate rhinos in a bid to raise awareness of the endangered status of these creatures.

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Cat Edwards – Happy Cat Productions

Cat Edwards started her business, Happy Cat Productions, back in 2011. Happy Cat Productions is an events business that also provides readings and spiritual consultations. This includes life coaching and nutritional support, assisting clients to find and follow their direction in life.

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Kirsty McLarry – Sweet CinnaBun

Sydney-based mum of five and founder/ CEO of Sweet CinnaBun, Kirsty McLarry, loves to bake. She hit on the idea of combining a cinnamon bun with a doughnut, then adding a sweet sauce or glaze. After she donated some of her unique buns to a charity site in 2017, she was inundated with people wanting to buy them.

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Holla & Santa – Wild by Soulexplor3r

Meet Holla & Santa, the fabulous young women behind Wild by Soulexplor3r. Through participating
in the Global Sisters GLO Youth Challenge, they identified a need in the community for natural beauty
and hair products, specifically for African hair and skin. They are on a mission to see young Australian
women of African descent embrace their natural beauty, rather than hiding it under synthetic wigs and
damaging their hair with chemical products.

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Shefaa Goder – Dessert by Design

Shefaa Goder hails from Cape Town in South Africa and is now based in Calamvale, Brisbane, where she runs her business Dessert by Design, creating bespoke desserts and beautiful tablescapes. Shefaa started out baking for her children’s birthday parties and fell in love with the creativity of baking and then creating the best setting for her desserts.

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Aroma Iftakhar Hussain – AR Iftakhar Creative Design

Canberra-based Aroma Iftakhar Hussain is passionate about helping other women. Her business, AR Iftakhar Creative Design designs, produces and sells cards, invitations, posters and flyers.

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Matr Boomie

Matr Boomie is a Fair Trade company founded in the US with the goal of alleviating poverty in rural India by utilising the craft skills of locals. Matr Boomie works with grassroots organizations to transform unskilled women and men into master artisans, with a focus on ethical and sustainable business practice.

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Isabel Jackson – Dancessence

Isabel Jackson’s business, Dancesssence, offers women and girls dance events and facilitated sessions of dance-based movement. After getting many requests for this kind of niche event, Isabel came up with the idea of providing specialised services for women and girls of diverse backgrounds to express themselves in women-only spaces.

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Somrudee Phonkhet – Shebah Driver

Somrudee Phonket loves driving so it made perfect sense for her to start working as a Shebah driver, offering safe and friendly driving services in Canberra for women and children under 12. Shebah is the female family friendly alternative to Uber, which was started up by a single mum like Somrudee herself. Somrudee, who calls herself Deedee, heard about Shebah at a My Big Idea workshop and was inspired by the story. “I saw how many other women had in their hearts to help other women and I am like them too,” she says.

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Kagi Kowa – Nubia Designs

Kagi Kowa is originally from Sudan. When she arrived in Australia from Kenya with her three sisters she found that creating art helped her overcome feelings of loss, displacement, and self-identity. She started her social enterprise business, Nubia Designs, in 2017 to help fellow refugees transition to life here through creating and enjoying art.

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Jaime Poutapu – Mindful Sweets

Being gluten intolerant meant Jaime Poutapu became increasingly conscious of healthy eating and the need to choose products with quality ingredients. With her friend Amber she established Mindful Sweets in 2016, selling cakes and slices which are free of gluten, refined sugar and dairy, using only whole-food ingredients.

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Ita Andehui Lopez – Salsitas

Ita Andehui Lopez was born in Mexico City and migrated to Australia 18 years ago.

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Pa Ywel Paw – TOO AND LOU

As a young girl in a refugee camp at the Thai-Burma border, Pa Ywel Paw begged her mother for a needle and thread so she could help by sewing together the scraps of material that fell on the floor from her mother’s sewing.

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Glenis Wilkinson – Yoga with Glenis

While taking part in an outdoor yoga class in Brisbane, Glenis Wilkinson was inspired to start her own business teaching yoga. “I can do this,” she thought and so she did, kicking off several years ago by offering classes on a gold coin donation basis.

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Michaela Skelly – Super M Press

Having worked since she was a 12-years-old, Michaela Skelly is putting her finely-tuned organisational skills into her business, Super M Press, a one stop publishing studio.

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Kazumi Rotapel – Kazumi’s Sweets n Treats

Most of us can relate to finding happiness and satisfaction in a crunchy fresh pastry or delicious French dessert – but for Kazumi Rotapel, these sweet treats offer much more, including the chance to fulfil her dreams and achieve financial independence.

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Jamie Brown – The Happiness Ninja

Throughout her life, Jamie Brown has faced many obstacles to happiness, with a story that she kindly describes as ‘long and complicated’ and which sadly involved more exposure to drugs and alcohol and abuse than most of us would have to deal with in our lifetimes.

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Liza Dezfouli – Creative Persuasive Copy

When you say ‘copywriter’ not many people understand what that is – it means Liza writes words
that sell. Whenever you use words to get your business noticed, whether it’s an ad, a brochure, a
script for a video, pages on your website, a power point presentation, your social media profiles,
a blog post or even an e–book, that’s the sort of writing she does.

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Lina Qasem – Robofun

Originally from Palestine, Lina’s new life in Australia has provided her with the opportunity to follow her dream of owning her own business.

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Mona Mahamed – Community Support Services Incorporated

Mona Mohamed mother of six children living in Bankstown, Sydney. Mona is of Egyptian heritage born and raised in Australia.

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Cindy Barden – Lil Bug Love

Lil Love Bug is an inspiring social enterprise, the work of Brisbane based mum, Cindy Barden. Cindy is on a mission to create comfort kits for kids whose mother or caregiver are escaping domestic violence.

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Luul Aligas – Zuhaira Somali Sauces

It’s a long way from Somalia to Melbourne, but Luul’s new life in Australia has provided her with the opportunity to follow her dream of owning her own business. Luul is working toward establishing her business, Zuhaira Somali Sauces, sharing her traditional recipes, knowledge, skills and techniques with other women in their community.

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Fiona Wilkinson – Fiona’s Pet Services

After starting her career in childcare, Fiona Wilkinson realised her true passion lay in helping care for people’s furry family members. Her aim is to provide the caring, responsible and trustworthy services that she would want as a pet owner.

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Huong Ngo

Our inspiring sister Huong, born and raised in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, has long nurtured a love of and impressive talent for sewing. But since she began sewing at age 18, Huong has faced many challenges.

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Lauraline K’hser – By Mee Mee

By Mee Mee is an inspiring one-woman operation, the work of our sister Lauraline. Lauraline hand-crochets beautiful children’s toys using soft cotton to create classic keepsake toys such as bunnies and teddies. Nicknamed ‘Mee Mee’ as a child, Lauraline felt it the perfect name – meaning ‘cute cat’ in her native tongue – for her business.

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TWICH Women’s Sewing Collective

Named for its members’ community in South Sudan, Twich Women’s Sewing Collective was formed in 2011. In
2012, recognising the potential for the group to serve as a place for South Sudanese women to not only gather and connect, but to develop marketable skills, Abuk Bol steered the collective to become a sewing business

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Eva Nargoodah

Eva was born on Christmas Creek Station and grew up with her parents until the age of six. Eva’s father was a
stockman and her mother worked in the house. Eva was taken away to GoGo Station where her great-
grandmother lived. She moved there with the manager Vic Johns from Christmas Creek, where her father and
mother again worked.

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Satomi Shimizu – Tomi Art Sudios

Satomi Shimizu blends a flair for modern design concepts with a deep connection to the aesthetics of the traditional Japanese art and culture of her heritage….

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Sandra Nugget

Sandra Nuggett is a member of the Walmajarri community, traditionally the community based itself in the Great South Desert of northern West Australia. Today the Walmajarri people live in small communities from Mulan in the north, to the Fitzroy River and Bidjadanga in the south Kimberley. Sandra spends most of her time living mostly in Bunuba Country near the Tunnel Creek.

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Jannike Larae Seiuli – Pacific Runway

Jannike was born in New Zealand, and has a rich Pacific heritage that is a combination of Samoan and Maori descent. She arrived in Australia at the age of 6 when her family moved across the Tasman Sea (or Te Tai-o-Rehua in the Maori native tongue) from New Zealand.

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The Possibility Project

Kath Davis and Kim Pearce have a passion for helping women realise their inner worth, and a deep belief that every person deserves to live with dignity.

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Cielo Quintero Restrepo – Cielito Creations

Cielito Creations was started in 2015 by Cielo Quintero Restrepo. Cielo was born and raised in Colombia, but followed love and her Australian husband to Melbourne, Australia, where they have made a new life together….

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Raven + Lily

Raven + Lily is an ethical fashion and lifestyle brand that aims to help break the cycle of poverty through fair trade and long term employment of women in economically challenged countries.

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Achol, Athok and Traza – White Nile Women

White Nile Women is run by Achol, Athok and Traza, three women who have settled in Canberra after fleeing their home country of South Sudan as refugees. The White Nile is one of the main tributaries to the Nile in Africa and the lifeblood of many African nations. White Nile Women take inspiration from this great river to bring their delicious South Sudanese cuisine to Canberra, providing nourishment and sharing a taste of their culture…..

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Andy Lee – Andy Lee Workshop

Andy Lee Workshop was started in 2014 by Andy Lee as a way to embrace her creativity and flare for design and use these talents to earn a living. Andy moved to Australia in 2010 from Hong Kong to be with her husband, and they are now growing an impressive rose garden together in Melbourne….

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Cloth & Co

Cloth & Co. is an Australian based luxury lifestyle brand founded with the primary objective of helping alleviate poverty through the utilisation of the traditional artisan’s skills, as well as providing capacity and skills development to those in need.

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Asifa Qarar – Tamanna Rugs

Tamanna is a social enterprise that was established by Asifa Qarar in 2016. The name “Tamanna” means “Wish” in Asifa’s native language (Dari/Hazaragi) and was inspired by her ‘wish’ to support the founding of a maternal clinic in Afghanistan that will help make pregnancy and childbirth safer for women who do not otherwise have access to medical care. Tamanna also provides a sustainable source of income for the disadvantaged Afghan craftswomen who create the beautiful rugs Asifa sells here in Australia.

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Angela Paikea – Paikea Designs

Paikea Designs offers handcrafted headpieces, caplets and flowers across Sydney. Each item is carefully created by business owner Angela Paikea, who believes the art of weaving together materials or plants has a way of uniting and building people, connecting them in a way that encourages, uplifts and frees spirits.

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Yasmin Osman

Yassie is a business born out of creative thinking, helping others and a passion for beautiful things. Started by 19 year old Yasmin ‘Yassie’ Osman – who was inspired while studying a Fashion Enterprise Program – it offers jewellery Yasmin makes by hand, using natural stones of all shapes, sizes and colours…

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Pakao Sorn – Red Owl

Named after the owls in her village in Burma, business owner Pakao Sorn always enjoyed the sights and sounds of these creatures at night – and decided that the shape of their big body with the little ears would make for a cute, soft toy…

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Tigi Daramy

A traditional Gara Dyer, Tigi Dankay Daramy is continuing the long family tradition whilst building a new foundation for her family…

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Jennifer Teepaw Lowe – Teepaw

Teepaw – meaning ‘water flower’ – is a business that uses traditional fabrics and materials to create beautiful clothes, bags and dolls for the community. With a love of craft and making things, owner Jennifer ‘Teepaw’ Lowe has been growing the business since 1999, when she moved with her Australian husband and daughter to Canberra…

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Maureen Unasa – Samoan Weaving HQ

Maureen Unasa had been helping with her children’s school art project when she discovered her natural flair for weaving Pacific-inspired art and accessories. Since then she has been re-connecting with her homeland and traditional culture in Samoa, establishing Samoan Weaving HQ business and blog, with the aim to be the ‘go to’ place for all things connected with Samoan weaving…

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Kate Wojtczak

A mother of two, Kate moved to Australia for a better life, she says, when there were too many changes taking place in Europe, and the company she was working for collapsed. So she moved from the Iodz, Poland to Sydney in 2001…

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Cleonie Quayle

Cleonie Quayle is an artist and self-employed jewellery maker. She specialises in collecting, crafting and designing Australian Aboriginal fabric, gumnut and quongdong jewellery…

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Cindy Chen – Amok

Cindy is a single mum of three kids, living in South-West Sydney. She is a refugee from Cambodia who has overcome significant challenges to be financially independent and support her family.

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Jo-Jo – Prosperity Cleaning

Jo-Jo is originally from West Africa but now lives in Australia. She misses the noise and activity of her home country – so much noise! – but is now kept very busy with her business in Sydney, as she continues to grow it and employ more people…

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Loraini Duikorokoro

A Sydney-based cleaning business, owner Loraini Duikorokoro was running personal and domestic care jobs with an aged care agency when she saw a need to provide this kind of service: domestic cleaning…

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Maria Alejandra Valenzuela

All her life Maria Valenzuela has created things with her hands. So it was a natural move when she discovered that, due to language barriers, she couldn’t continue her career as a Chilean journalist, she turned to her other passion – jewellery design…

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Charlie Sze – Sze Beauty

Wellness in body, mind and spirit – that is the topic that Charlie and her friends in Hong Kong would regularly discuss. After living for 12 years in Australia, Charlie would like to share some of that wisdom which draws on Traditional Chinese Medicine…

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Yoko Nakazawa – Cooking with Koji

When people think of Japanese food, they might think of rice or sushi – but Yoko Nakazawa says miso is really at the heart of Japanese cooking.

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Pamela Mujica – PAMdesigned

While Pamela is fortunate to have a supportive family, feeling like she wanted to contribute financially to the household drove her decisions to start up her business in 2015.

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Mariam Awad

Mariam Awad was struggling to find a cake for her daughter’s birthday that was both unique and affordable, when she decided to bake it herself. The cake was so delicious and creative that when birthday party guests got a slice they asked for more and more…

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Rachel Bali Chan

For Rachel, sewing is not just work – it is her playtime too. She is in the business of making and selling clothing, and loving it. Starting with her friends and family, Rachel sews clothing for those close to her and is now expanding her range to people across Sydney…

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Seruwaia Voli

Seru Beauty Sydney-based beauty business is blossoming. Having completed courses in beauty and retail, beautician Seruwaia offers facials, waxing, manicures and pedicures, body treatments and make-up…

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The creator of Peacebomb, a line of modern and effortlessly chic jewellery that is created using debris from the Vietnam War. Hand crafted by artisans in rural Laos, the pieces are finished in Vientiane and New York with precious metals and stones…

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Siamese Dream Design

Takes great pride in empowering indigenous women to provide financial security to their families while maintaining their cultural traditions…

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Basha Boutique

While a woman is working for Basha, she receives ongoing training and education in life skills, literacy, English, health, and values, as well as on-site day care and educational support for children…

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Jo-Ann Wolles – GoannaHut

A chef by trade and a Wiradjuri woman, Jo-Ann Wolles business Goanna Hut provides her with the opportunity to use her skills while also sharing her Aboriginal heritage and culture through a huge range of bush-tucker-inspired dishes…

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Nina Kovacevic

Nina Kovacevic has always known she wanted to work in makeup and has been quietly working on her business since 2015, though it has only been more recently that things have really started to take off…

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