Search Widens has been in business since 1983. The production is done primarily in India and Nepal. They have worked with many of their suppliers for the past twenty years, and are grateful to be able to work with such fundamentally good and decent people who are committed to providing good wages and working conditions for their workers. They are passionately interested in educating consumers about the importance of purchasing fairly traded products. The strength of their line continues to be the enormous variety of excellent quality semi-precious gemstones—many of which are unusual—which they use in their jewelry, as well as the fact that many of their designs are original. Designs range from ethnic to contemporary. A portion of profits are donated to the Tibetan Children’s Education Foundation, a nonprofit corporation founded in 1995 dedicated to the preservation of Tibetan culture by supporting Tibetan schools and school children-in-exile from their homeland.