The Made in Kibera Jewellery
Project
Kibera Women Economic Empowerment (KWEE) is a women’s organization in Kenya that
launched an initiative for the setting up Women Self Help Groups in Kibera. As we have seen, Kibera is located in Nairobi and is possibly
the largest urban slum in Africa.
The goal of the project is economic independence for the women.
Each self help group will work towards creating and selling traditional
jewellery and handicrafts from Kenya. The
vision is to find a way for unemployed mothers to earn sufficient income to send their children to school and achieve an acceptable standard of living. Kenya
does not have a free school system and therefore parents must pay a large
proportion of their income for their children to go to school.
Life can be very difficult in Kibera as this
documentary from Amnesty International shows us. Watch The Women at Kibera at:
Funds for the project are limited. We invite you to support the project with advocacy, donations and voluntary participation.
So please blog, post, mail, sms, twitter whatever you may think about and tale action!
After a pilot phase we have created a catalogue of fashionable
jewellery created by women from Kibera in their own design and making use of
traditional methods to work local raw materials.
Traditional Kenyan jewelry is some of the most
beautiful and artistic jewelry in the world. It is typically made from brightly
colored beads and stones. Tribal Kenyan people tend to only wear this expensive
and amazing jewelry on special occasions such as weddings and other ceremonies.
Read more at:
Our catalogue will be continuously updated with new creations so
keep on coming back and visit us to support the inititiative.
See Catalogue at:
And remember: Poverty is something that can be changed.
Read the story of Michael Nyangi who lives in Kibera where he runs a
microfinance organisation called Lomoro in this video by Amnesty International.
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