Bracelets sales raise awareness, funds

Special to The TIMES

The Pea Ridge High School's Spanish Classes/Spanish Club will be selling hand-woven bracelets, or "pulseras" in Spanish, to empower the artists who make them in Nicaragua, Guatemala and Uganda. Bracelets will be for sale on Thursday, March 17, and Friday, March 18.

3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, March 17, & Friday, March 18

Neighborhood Market, Pea Ridge

The sale was organized through the Pulsera Project, a nonprofit organization that empowers and educates young people in the U.S. and Central America through pulsera sales.

Student and teacher volunteers raise funds that benefit fair trade jobs, worker rights, sustainability and education, while learning about the culture, lives, and struggles of Central Americans. The Pulsera Project's goal is to create a more just and colorful world by encouraging conscious consumerism and social enterprise.

Spanish Club students will be at Neighborhood Walmart in Pea Ridge from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 17, and Friday, March 18, from 3:30 pm to 6:30 pm.

Community on 03/16/2016