Team Sager

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  Team Sager Invisible Sun
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  Team Sager The Shula M Cuff
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  Team Sager The Nadra M Cuff
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  Team Sager The Ibiyiringiro 5cm EArrings in Yellow
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  Team Sager The Amahoro 5cm EArrings in Purple
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  Team Sager The Inshuti 5cm Earrings in Green
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  Team Sager The Urukundo 5cm EArrings in Red
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  Team Sager The Wahid Wrap
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  Team Sager The Naji Cuff
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  Team Sager The Ziya Wrap

Sager and Friends

Hope is the most important thing that people need to move forward. The slightest ray of hope can ignite the human spirit’s ability to overcome: the power of the invisible sun.

– Bobby Sager

There are those in the world of business who just seem to be golden. They have a touch that bathes each of their projects in success, no matter what it is. They are meant to be noticed by the world, and the world obliges. Bobby Sager may be one of those golden ones. What sets him apart from even this select group, though, may well be the heart that beats beneath his business exterior.

Bobby Sager is the force behind Team Sager. As a branch of the Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Roadshow, they team with communities in such places as the West Bank and Rwanda, enabling them to market their handicrafts to the West. The initiative empowers the people who construct the items to move closer towards a goal of being self-sufficient, as individual families and communities, as well.

Sager and Sting

Sager, a Brandeis graduate with a Masters of Management from Yale, was an integral part of the Gordon Brothers Group in Boston from 1985 to 2000. But the groundwork for living what was in his heart was probably set in the preceding years just before that, when he and wife Elaine lived a nomadic life, making and selling jewelry as they traveled the world. In 2000, the road apparently began to call out to him again, and he established the Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Roadshow. The couple, and their two young children, embraced their global travels once again with a slightly different objective this time around. They would now take up the role of philanthropists instead of vendors, working to assist instead of to only make a living for themselves.

Sager found a kindred spirit when he met Sting in 1999, and the two have been close ever since. Most recently, Sting performed and appeared with Sager at events promoting Sager’s book of photographs, The Power of the Invisible Sun, as well as contributing the book’s foreword. Sager was also the basis for the main character in NBC’s The Philanthropist television series.

Hands Up Not Hands Out Initiative

Team Sager contributes to the foundation’s cause by sponsoring the Hands Up Not Handouts program, which brings handicrafts from around the world to a global market. The Qalandia cuffs are the first to be featured, along with a Rwandan initiative that features earrings and necklaces. The Qalandia cuffs are handmade by the Qalandia Camp Women’s Handicraft Cooperative, working out of the West Bank’s Qalandia Refugee Camp. Made to be worn by both men and women, the intricate needlework is hand sewn and completed in seven assorted basic and seasonal color palettes, including trellis, autumnal floral and tribal multi, to name a few. Profits from the sales are used by the co-op to fund such community projects as clothing for refugee schoolchildren, quilts for orphanages and vocational programs for impoverished women in nearby remote villages.