Our factory

The company Rita Prossi from Amazonas (Brazil) is pioneer in using the Amazonian nature for making jewels. Through research, inspired by legends of our region, we promote the auto-sustainable wealth of the Amazon forest with extreme respect for the environment. Our efforts are to make inovative and quality designs that charms for their beauty.

We work with local man power (Brazil - Amazonas - Manaus City), through a vast productive chain, making the junction with the technology, using of elements of the culture and the local knowledge.

 

Politically and ecologically correct, our production possesss; beauty, innovation, culture, and technology.

A deep research of the materials to be used is made before implementing in our production, to be known if the material to be used will not present future problems, for the environment or for its use.

Our production is part of a vast chain; The indian who weaves the straw or harvests the seed, the craftsman whom clean, sandpaper and he cuts the seed, the designer that creates the model, the silversmith and goldsmith that makes the production, the suppliers of stone, the gem setter that to set the stone in the jewel, the indians of the Alto do Rio Negro make the packings (hand made) and later, the distribution is made to stores and resellers.

Our company works in this productive chain benefiting the projects of the  organization of indian works and artisan, so that can be made into a sustainable and promising system for the region.

 

The introduction of the process, before the opening of the company was in 1994, phase of research, experiments and improvement of the company, of 1995 until year 1998 it was the period of tests and implementation of technology for our products. In 1999, 2001 and 2002 we start commercialize in mass our jewels with our marketing campaign ecologically correct.

 
Improvement in the work pointers and income for communities partners.

The company taught to some indians and craftsmen a form for cut the seeds, to generate income for its communities. Effectiveness in promoting a bigger organization social of the reached communities.

 


Waimiri Atroari village “MYDY” - village MYNAWA.

The communities that are partners of the company, are in phase of organization, some already are in associations, others in cooperatives. Forecast of auto-evaluation in the target of the project: The project is moored without a doubt to the volume of vendas of Bio-Jewel, how much bigger the demand more improvement for the communities.

 
Positive impacts in what it refers to the ambient question of the region

All the seeds are seeds did not germinate, that they fall of the trees or same as the seed of the fruit of tucumã that very is consumed by the local habitants from Amazonian. Our bio-Jewel is produced ecologically correct, contributing for spreading of the region in innovative form of one design respecting always in first place our environment.

Capacity of solution in affecting positively in the solution of other problems

Our process of productive chain generates income for the communities and indian villages, making that the habitants can not only remain in its villages or cities of the interior, preventing the disappearance of the culture of the communities and tribes of the region in question, but as well as preventing the “swell” of people in the capital, and contributing for reduction of the crime and violence in the great cities.


Rita Prossi (in the center of the photo)
in visit the Saterê-Maué tribe.

 

Partnership and responsibility - Joint with public politics

We have not yet envolvement with public politics exists. Capacity of the experience to be reproduced in partner-cultural spaces and economic fellow creatures. The possibility of this experience exists to be extended, this very needs well to be placed. Capacity to establish partnerships in the private sector. It can be an introduction of these cultural values to be boarded as form of  sustentation of the communities.

General commentaries on the proposal

The proposal if relates to the industrialization and commercialization of Bio-Jewel, ecologically correct jewels, and that they are part of a huge and valuable productive chain, that values the hand of workmanship of partnerships with indian communities, craftsmen, and industrial of precious metals, mines of gem stones.

 
 

Brazilian government support:

 
   

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