[Jewelry making - Article 00311] - Re: [Orchid] Katerina the Killer

[Marianne Hunter]

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    someone  (sorry) brought up starting a business of bead/jewelry work
    for" women of Katrina". It seems to me (hugely unqualified as I
    don't know how to work with employees) that people need to build jobs
    with some kind of longevity. Tabra had an enormously successful
    business going for many years that employed a lot of women. (Men
    could do this ,too..let's not be sexist). I don't think a short spurt
    of making things from donated beads and looking strictly for a
    sympathy buy is the best long term goal. It seems to me that, in
    order to make a real goal of this it needs several large issues
    covered. 

    whoever puts this together has to have the ability /desire to
    organize a small company of sorts. 

    time for a learning curve has to be taken into consideration. 

    the product has to be good enough to sell on it's own merits and to
    pay for it's own manufacture (time/materials) otherwise, you might
    as well just donate both. It's the old giving a person a fish vs.
    teaching a person to fish. A donation of materials would be great
    for start-up, but people need to EARN a living and be able to grow.
    If the business isn't viable, they won't ever be able to advance. 

    Again, I admit to speaking as the voice of no experience when it
    comes to business plans , etc. 

    Every kind thought is, in itself, a positive thing. 

Marianne Hunter

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