Hadithi

Our company empowers female artisans in Tsavo, Kenya. We support over 1800 women from 60 artisan groups by providing a market for their high quality handmade crafts. We assist the groups with raw materials, trainings in craft skills and other life-empowering workshops.Our mission is to give as many people as possible in Tsavo, Kenya, a sustainable opportunity to earn their livelihood. To lift them out of poverty and take pressure off the land and wildlife which people in Tsavo share their homes with.By purchasing our products you support:❥ A woman in a remote, dry rural part of south-east Kenya where there are very few ways to make a living. Basket weaving means a vital income for her (and for all the 1500 women in the women groups that we now support). The money goes a long way, especially in the dry season, when she as a farmer often fails to produce enough harvest to even meet her family’s basic needs. Basket weaving provides her with some financial stability, money to pay school fees and buy food.❥ The conservation of a threatened forest and its wildlife. When harvests fail, people turn to other ways to provide an income for the family. It is not uncommon in Tsavo that people turn to cutting trees to turn them into charcoal, or poaching wildlife in the area. An income for basket weaving is the alternative we can offer.❥ And of course, to keep the beautiful ancient local tradition of basketweaving part of the present and the future!