We’re wrapping up our week of Limon Piel here on the Angel Handbag blog and we’ve saved the best for last! Limon Piel is more than just a line of covetable purses (and seriously, we desire every single purse on our site). The brand is uniquely compelling because of the passion and goodwill that happens behind the scenes. Every bag purchased gives a patient a “second chance” from the charity of medical mission work. “We’re able to give kids prosthetic limbs and hernia repairs, or little things like diabetes medication. Help they otherwise wouldn’t have been able to get, but for $20 can save their life,” Lisa says.
Lisa’s passion for her work was evident when we asked why she loves her job. “Most of these people [in Columbia] have nothing.” Her Limon Piel booth at handbag fairs is 10×10 feet because “that is the size of the houses where ten family members will live together. Yet they’re so happy to have that home, so thrilled that we’re there. These 90 year olds who are being seen by a physician for the first time, they’re so grateful and happy, yet they have nothing to their name. You fall in love with people like that.”
To own and love a Limon Piel bag is “magical,” because they’re more than just lovely totes. Lisa went to Colombia six years ago on her first medical mission trip ” with this whole big intent on changing the world, and instead I came back with my own life changed.” Recognizing that she could bring good to an area of the world she loved so dear, she now feels that Limon Piel “brings beauty in many ways to many people. To the medical mission work, to the women carrying the bags, to the Indians creating the beauty. It goes full circle.” We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.