Our world is not always as free and wonderful place as we wish. Some extraordinary people however, use all their imagination, power and life to make it a better place. Call them rebels, geniuses or crazy, these people have a special place in the heart and soul of Love Warriors. For the LW icon candleholders we have chosen three true warriors whose lives, struggles and legacies lighten up and make the world a better place. These three are Malala Yousafzai, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi.
LW will donate 10 % of all sales of the icons to the Malala Fund. The goal of the fund is to enable girls to complete 12 years of safe, quality education so that they can achieve their potential and be positive change-makers in their families and communities. “I am not a lone voice, I am many”, Malala Yousafzai.
Light their candles and remember that the fight is forever and that every one of us is able to make a change for a better world, to be a True Love Warrior.
The LW icon candleholders are made of hand-carved sandstone. For the candleholders we have chosen three true warriors who have seen things differently, made great change, and pushed the world towards a better future.
These three are Malala Yousafzai, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi.
NELSON MANDALA july 18th 1918 - December 5th 2013 | Mandala is forever a great symbol of liberation. He spent his life for democratic and free society. As young law student Mandela joined the ANC and for 20 years he directed acts defiance against the government and its racist policies.
Senteced to life imprisonment for political offenses and sabotage, he spent in total 27 years as a prisoner. Upon release in 1990 he joined negotiations with President F. W. de Klerk to abolish apartheid and establish multiracial elections. In 1994 Mandela became the first black president of South Africa and continued to dismantle the legacy of apartheid.
MALALA YOUSAFZAI - Juli 12th 1997 | As a young girl, Malala started campaigning for the right of girls attend school in her Swat Valley in Pakistan. The Taliban issued a death treat agains her and on October 9, 2012 a gunman shot her as she was traveling home from school. Although she was seriously injured, the assassination-attemp only made Malala´s voice advocacy around the world. Malala´s struggle agains the suppression of children and their right to education made her the youngest-ever Nobel price laureate in 2014, age 17.
MAHATMA GANDHI October 2nd 1869 - January 3oth 1948 | A true icon of pacifism, Gandhi advocated the practice of nonviolence, simple life and truth in all situations. He was the primary lead go India´s independence movement, who also worked for women´s right and more humane caste system. In 1947 India finally gained independency from the British Empire, although violence between Hinduism and Muslim complicated the process. A year after Gandhi, who spent his life preaching nonviolence, was killed by extremist, upset by Gandhi´s tolerance agains Muslims. Still, Gandhi´s use of nonviolence civil disobedience continue to inspire movement for civil rights and freedom across the world.
Light their candles and remember that the fight is forever and that every one of us is able to make a change for a better world, to be a True Love Warrior.
the Warriors
In our many travels to Bali we learn to know an island, full of beauty and soul. Were everything can happen. A travel trough the peerless country side that in the end always find its way to the big embracing ocean. Along the way of Bali, people and beautiful creatures becomes a part of our Warrior story. The magical pig, the kind man Ketut and the woman of the banana fields.
The man Ketut was proud but humle, when he gently guiding our way trough the fields of harvest. And let us meet the Woman of the banana fields.
