3
Artisan Collaborators in India
6
Original Collections Developed
20
Young People Reached Through Youth Programs
5
Community & Chamber Showcases
2
Youth Workshops Led
30%
of Every Sale Committed
6+
Years of Designing Jewelry With Purpose and Intention
250+
Pieces Created Since 2021
What We've Made So Far
AT A GLANCE
Sherese’s support has been part of Cosmic Child’s own growth.
Here, she is behind the camera, helping a young founder share her work with the wider community.
Through The 5th Inc., Ani extends that encouragement to other young people—sharing her craft, her experience, and the opportunity to create something of their own.
This is what partnership means to us: people contributing what they can, and helping one another discover what comes next.
The 5th Inc.
OUR COMMUNITY PARTNER
Behind the lens and behind the mission: Sherese James, founder of The Fifth Inc. supporting Cosmic Child at the Spring Expo 2026
Ani with Sherese at the Boca Chamber Pearl Award, February 2023
Ani sharing her craft and experience at The Fifth Inc. Youth Development Program, Summer 2025.
Where Value Travels Both Ways
OUR IMPACT
Every bracelet creates opportunity in two communities at once; sustaining the livelihoods of artisans in India and helping fund youth development and mentorship in South Florida. A significant portion of every sale is donated to The 5th Inc.,
a grassroots South Florida nonprofit that teaches life skills, leadership, and entrepreneurial foundations to young people from marginalized communities.
But money is only 'the visible half' of the exchange.
The hands that make it.
Every piece begins with people, not a machine. Our artisans work in techniques passed down for longer than any brand has existed. When you buy a Cosmic Child piece, you're keeping a specific skill, in specific hands, worth practicing. That's why nothing we make is anonymous. Mass production works by hiding the maker. We would rather you knew there was one.
The same human thing.
The deeper half of the exchange is this: the artisans who make our pieces and the teenagers who make their own in Ani's workshops are doing the same human thing, turning materials and effort into something that is theirs.
Ani leads those workshops herself, not to teach jewelry so much as to pass on what jewelry taught her; that making something with your hands is one of the surest ways to believe you can make something of your life.
That is the value that travels both ways.
What happens in the room.
In a workshop, the moment that matters comes before the bracelet is finished.
It comes when a teenager who was sure they would make something "wrong" holds up something they made, and it is theirs, and you can see them recalculate what else they might be capable of.
That is the whole idea, in miniature. Confidence is taught by making, one made thing at a time.
Beyond the question of 'what a purchase funds',
lies the question of 'what making does to the maker'.