Beautiful Design
Beautiful Design
Timeless pieces crafted to be loved, gifted and shared.
Premium solar lighting. Real human impact.
Women’s Lantern creates beautiful solar-powered lanterns and ethical homewares that bring warmth into homes, gardens, retreats and meaningful gifts.
Behind every product is a bigger purpose: lighting the way to safety, sustainability and economic dignity for migrant women rebuilding their lives.
Where Beauty Meets Purpose
Women’s Lantern creates beautiful solar-powered lanterns and ethical homewares that bring warmth into homes, gardens, retreats and meaningful gifts.
But behind every product is something more.
We believe beautiful design should do more than decorate a space. It can create opportunity. It can support livelihoods. It can help build a more sustainable future.
Clean Energy
Clean Energy
Harnessing the power of the sun to create light without waste.
Circular Economy
Circular Economy
Transforming discarded materials into meaningful products.
Women’s Empowerment
Women’s Economic Empowerment
Creating pathways to income, skills and opportunity.
Behind Women’s Lantern
Every lantern begins with a simple belief:
Beauty and purpose belong together.
Around the world, millions of useful materials are discarded every year, while many women rebuilding their lives face barriers to income, opportunity and economic independence.
Women’s Lantern was created to connect those challenges through one simple product.
We transform discarded coconut shells and natural rattan into beautiful solar-powered lanterns designed to bring warmth, light and meaning into everyday spaces.
What starts as waste becomes craftsmanship.What starts as sunlight becomes clean energy.What starts as a purchase becomes opportunity.
Because a lantern becomes more than a light.
It becomes income.It becomes skill.It becomes dignity.It becomes a pathway forward.
Founder Story
Founded in the darkness. Powered by light.
When someone has walked through darkness, they understand the value of light.
Founded by migrant survivor, author and social impact leader Ratu Nida Farihah, Women’s Lantern transforms personal resilience into collective impact.
What began as one woman rebuilding her life has become a movement creating pathways to safety, dignity and economic opportunity for others.
Every lantern carries that story forward.
Handcrafted from natural materials and powered by the sun, each piece is a reminder that beauty can emerge from hardship, and that light becomes most meaningful when it is shared.
Because we believe safety, opportunity and sustainable livelihoods should belong to all, not only those born with easy access to them.
Founded in the darkness.
Powered by light.
Built for a brighter future.
Board Members
Led by Experience. Governed with Purpose.
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Melissa
Board Director &Company Secretary
Melissa Chandler is an experienced finance and commercial executive with over 25 years in the technology, health, media, telecommunications, and professional services sectors.
Rathia
Board Director -Partnership
Rathia is an executive leader with a proven track record in health, wellbeing, and safety. She is the Product & Partnership Manager at Australia Retirement Trust, and her experiences support Women’s Lantern in Product innovation & strategic partnership.
Meenakshi
Board Director -Business Development
With 23+ years of experience leading strategic and commercial partnerships, Meenakshi brings a passion for social innovation and is deeply committed to creating a safe, inclusive and thriving future for survivors.
Irma Del Mundo
Board Director - MarketingIrma is branding & marketing professional trained in FMCG blue-chip corporate-land. She brings 35 years of global brand building experience to the world of social impact and now bridges profit and purpose by connecting her community of over 70 branding professionals (talent philanthropists) with social enterprises.
How Your Purchase Creates Impact
25 Lanterns = 1 Survivor SupportedEvery purchase helps fund survivor-led programs, skills training and pathways to economic independence for migrant women.
You Buy
A beautiful handcrafted product.
Women Earn
Paid production and dignified work opportunities are created.
Skills Grow
Women gain practical skills, confidence and income pathways.
Safety Increases
Economic independence strengthens safety and recovery.
The Light Continues
Profits are reinvested into prevention, recovery and advocacy.
Our Impact So Far
Women’s Lantern has already:
98Produced 98 solar lanterns
13Supported 13 people in paid production
38kgDiverted 38kg of waste
3,430Generated 3,430 kWh of clean energy annually
2.8Avoided 2.8 tonnes of CO₂
Small steps. Big purpose. One light at a time.
Why Corporate Partners Buy From Us
Women’s Lantern helps organisations give gifts that say something deeper.
Our products are ideal for:
- Client gifting
- Employee appreciation
- Conference gifts
- Hotels and retreats
- International Women’s Day
- ESG and social impact campaigns
- Wholesale and retail partnerships
Corporate partners choose us because every order helps them:
- Create meaningful gifts people remember.
- Align with gender equality, clean energy and responsible consumption.
- Receive measurable social and environmental impact.
- Support migrant women’s economic empowerment.
- Tell a story customers and teams can believe in.
Partner With Purpose
Partner With Purpose
Whether you are buying one gift, styling a retreat, stocking a store or planning a corporate order, your purchase helps light the way.
Frequently Asked Questions
When you buy from Women’s Lantern, you are buying real products with real purpose.
Who leads Women’s Lantern?
Women’s Lantern is migrant and survivor-led, founded from lived experience and built with trauma-informed, culturally responsive values.
Is Women’s Lantern certified and accountable?
Women’s Lantern is a registered charity and Social Traders certified social enterprise.
Why solidarity, not self pity?
Survivors don't need self pity, we need solidarity. We do not ask people to buy out of guilt. We create beautiful, useful products that carry genuine impact.
How do you track impact?
We track production, waste diversion, clean energy and survivor support outcomes.