The Original LOVE Bracelet in Red
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The bracelet that started it all.
In 2014, Chrissie Lam was on a flight to Moscow when she struck up a conversation with two women who had just met on the plane. She asked them what LOVE meant to them. Inspired by their openness, she shared a photo of them wearing the beaded LOVE bracelet she had designed with Maasai women in Ngong Hills, Kenya. Within six months and 50 countries, Love Is Project was born.
Every bracelet is hand-beaded by Maasai women in Ngong Hills, Kenya. Adjustable, waterproof, and entirely unique. Slight color variations are part of the story.
Your purchase directly funds steady wages, school places, and community projects for Maasai women and their families in Kenya.
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The first LOVE bracelet was made by Abigail Tereno in Ngong Hills, Kenya. Chrissie Lam met Abigail in 2013, and together they created the bracelet that would start everything. Abby worked with a group of mothers who had children with special needs.
Today, Love Is Project works with artisan women across five beading villages in Ngong Hills. Helen, one of those artisans, grew up as the eldest of six children with limited education and manual jobs. Once she started making LOVE bracelets, she went on to earn fifteen times Kenya's minimum wage.
Over three years, the income from LOVE bracelet sales funded secondary school places for 60 students in Ngong Hills and allowed 150 women to invest in income-generating projects together. Your purchase is part of that chain.
"What the world need more of now...LOVE!" - Chrissie
"Amen." - Mark Cuban
We went on a wild journey and appeared on Shark Tank Because nothing says love like dragging your 70 years old mom out of retirement to help with operations and finances, I brought her on the show too! ;-)
LOVE IN KENYA
"We are contributing to our children's education, feeding our families, contributing financially, it has changed many things within our families."
Helen Silantoi - Love Is Project artisan
"Love Is Project creates employment opportunities that uplift my community in Ngong Hills, Kenya, empowering women & their families. These earnings have allowed 150 women to invest in each other through other income-generating projects."
Sammy Semat - Maasai community leader
YOUR PURCHASES MAKE AN IMPACT
Every purchase helps keep artisan craftsmanship alive and thriving. Your order funds fair wages, steady work, and dignified livelihoods for makers and their families. It supports women-led entrepreneurship, invests in skills training, and backs community projects that create lasting change. We choose materials and partners with care, so the bracelet you wear carries a clear, positive impact—traced from the hands that made it to the life it helps build.
HOW WE'VE HELPED IN KENYA
Love Is Project funded 36 local gardens and agriculture projects across Kenya. The Maasai & Samburu have a sustainable food source and an additional income streams to support their own communities.
Helen Silantoi - Love Is Project artisan
"Love Is Project creates employment opportunities that uplift my community in Ngong Hills, Kenya, empowering women & their families. These earnings have allowed 150 women to invest in each other through other income-generating projects."
Sammy Semat - Maasai community leader
We started Love Is Project with the intention of building an ethical supply chain of love that transcended geographical, linguistic, and cultural barriers to provide opportunities to female artisans in developing countries. We're meeting many of the UN sustainable development goals.
Before she worked with Love Is Project she faced many challenges. With only a primary education, she learned beadwork & sold at the local Maasai market after having her second child, struggling, living hand to mouth.
Now, Helen makes 15 times the local wage working with Love Is Project. This income allows her to pay for her children’s school fees and provide food for her family.She also bought 13 goats and a dairy cow, and now sells the milk to the neighborhood.
She also manages one of the Love Gardens too. She is 31 years old.
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A QUICK P.S. FROM OUR FOUNDER
I believe LOVE is passion for what you do. Love Is Project is truly a labor of LOVE. Between my mother, Gladys, and myself, we singlehandedly run this organization full-time. We are the definition of a scrappy, big-hearted start-up always looking to meet the moment and jump in to help where we can. Powered by LOVE and a tribe of collaborators, mentors, friends, and a worldwide support system, Love Is Project exists. ♥
From the bottom of my heart, thank you for your support!
xo, Chrissie
