Although still young, Lovetta Conto is able to make jewelry favored Hollywood artists, such as Angelina Jolie and Halle Berry. In fact, the 17-year-old teenager was not a fan of Hollywood fashion products. Her life was far from glamorous and the influence of Hollywood. Conto actually grew up in Ghana refugee camp. Bitter experience of life in the civil war in Liberia, inspiring samples, making jewelry from shells.

The bullets were also collected during the civil war. The teenage girl who was born in Liberia, a country on the East Coast of Africa was separated from his mother at the age of 18 months. Meanwhile, her father fled the country to avoid civil war. When I was five years old, she began making crafts bullets in a refugee camp in Ghana. Creativity goes during nine years later. At that time, he lives with 47,000 other refugees.

Until in 2005, an American citizen Cori Stern visited the refugee camp. Stern is the founder of the Strongheart Fellowship, an organization dedicated to helping young children who are victims of conflict. When meeting with Stern, 12-year-old samples. At that time, Stern was thinking how to be able to make samples out of the refugee camp.

Stern helped samples to obtain a visa United States (U.S.). After obtaining a U.S. visa (USA), at the age of 14 years, samples, leaving her father in Ghana to the U.S.. Since then, Conto also aspires to be a clothing designer. The ideals were realized by making jewelry as a form of project Strongheart. The project is linked as a reflection of what happens in life around the samples, including creativity, making jewelry from bullets during the civil war Liberia.

Jewelry designs were full of meaning. One is the jewelry that read “life” that means a new life emerge from a difficult situation though. In addition, Conto also create jewelry designs from the bullet that read “Akawelle” which means “all knowing love”.