The silver items on this site are imported from Saint Louis Silvercrafts in Baguio City in the Philippines. St. Louis Silvercrafts was founded in 1916 by CICM missionary fathers and ICM sisters as a vocational workshop for boys. Silver-smithing was one of the crafts offered in the high school curriculum besides carpentry, shoemaking, hat-weaving, leathercraft and tailoring. Today these crafts are no longer part of the school curriculum. New silversmiths are trained by mentors working in St. Louis Silvercrafts under management of the ICM Sisters.

We have included Saint Louis Silvercrafts as a supplier because of the high quality of its products and because it employs several disabled men. They are a good example of how creative and productive the disabled can be in society.

St. Louis Silvercrafts is concerned about the well-being of its 33 employees and their families. It gives them with decent wages for their handicrafts, has set up an employees' retirement plan to supplement the official Philippine pension system and provides scholarships for the education of the children of the employees from kindergarten through college. The remainder of the income from the sale of silver items goes to poorer people, especially those living in the mountains in the northern part of the Philippines.