Sustainability

Supporting the people in our supply chain

Created by proud Papua New Guinean women, Numa Living is as much about bringing Pacific art and design into your homes as it is about looking after the women in PNG, whose skill and craft has been handed down through generations. 

Each piece we stock is entirely handmade and will last many lifetimes (some of the baskets and bilums in our homes are three generations and counting). We recognise that the skills to create such high-quality pieces have taken years to perfect. So it's important for us to pay what they're worth. 

Everyone who works with or supplies Numa Living is paid the equivalent of the UK living wage, regardless of where they're based (GBP converted to PNG Kina).

Supporting a local charity

Most of the people who make our beautiful products are women, so it's important to invest in a local charity dedicated to supporting women in Papua New Guinea. 

We support a local NGO, FemilPNG, in PNG that works to provide support for survivors of domestic violence, which has been called an epidemic by the UN.  

Carbon footprint

Due to the nature of Numa, shipping crafts and homeware across the globe, and then to your homes, we have a high carbon footprint.

In order to reduce our carbon footprint we:

• use local, trusted contacts in Papua New Guinea to reduce air travel
• rarely use airmail for our shipments, but when we do we share pallets with other businesses who also have small shipments to reduce wasted space,
• bulking large shipments together on cargo ships
• use Royal Mail for all local deliveries (read more about their carbon commitments here).

We're working towards becoming a carbon neutral company and offset our carbon footprint each year.