Low Income Gift Boxes
One of our goals in 2025 is to make our art more accessible to people who are low income and cannot afford non essential goods. While art may not be an essential good we still believe everyone should have access to it regardless of financial status as it's an important part in self expression and individuality. We are starting a new project where each month we will be sending out 5 gift boxes of 3 free pairs of earrings to those in our community who are low income and are not able to afford non essentials like our art (this includes people on or applying to disability, food stamps, housing assistance, or any other government assistance programs).
From our own funds as a company we are currently able to afford and commit to sending 5 gift boxes each month but would love our community's help putting together even more and spreading the love further. Please read the donation section below if you are interested in amplifying our project and helping to further uplift those in our community. We are collecting donations to help make and send out as many gift boxes as we can to those in need.
Apply to receive a giftbox!
If you are interested in applying to receive one of these boxes please fill out the google form below! These gift boxes are specifically for low income people on or applying to government assistance programs like disability, food stamps, housing assistance, etc. We will NOT be checking any documentation but we ask that you please use the honor system when applying! Depending on how many applications we get we will be randomly selecting people from the list to shop the site and receive 3 earrings of their choice for free! Each person can only be chosen once so we can maximize how many people we can help.
We will be donating a base of 5 boxes a month and depending on donations from our community will be sending out as many more as we can!
Donate to the fund!
Want to help contribute to this project? We made a listing on our website called "Donate An Earring” where you can pay it forward and help contribute to the fund! You can donate anywhere from $0.5 upward and every bit will go straight to this project. Every time the fund reaches $22.5 we will make and send a new box. Every donation, no matter how big or small, will be going directly towards uplifting someone in the Kikay community!
For full transparency here is the cost breakdown of putting together a box, we are not collecting any profit from this project!
Packaging costs: $1.4, earring production costs: $16.6, shipping: $4.5. Total: $22.5