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 Zuri, Kenya Zuri Design is a BAFTS registered Fair Trade Importer. Zuri Design works with 10 producer groups in Kenya. How is Shared Earth helping?Recent orders placed by Shared Earth at the bone project in Kibera slum are enabling the project to make significant changes to their workshops and the number of people employed. The following update is from Zuri Design:Zakale Creations Over the last 12 months since Shared Earth started buying from this group the workshop has expanded in number of employees and now has 24 young people employed. All employees are from Mathare slum. A second workshop has been opened to manage the production of bottle top ornaments. The recycled tin and bottle top lines are a new range for the workshop and enable workshop manager, John, to employ some young men from the slum that were out of work. The products have proved popular with their other export customers and these men are now kept in work most of the year. This product line also pays money to those who collect the recycled materials. The workshop also invested some of the profit from the last year into new machinery which means they have made their own production more efficient and profitable. They are planning to buy a plot of land next year and construct their own workshop as they currently rent land. Art Safi Self help group - Soapstone producers The 3 orders received from Shared Earth in the last 12 months have also enabled this group to employ a record number of people on orders. The majority of work has been done in Kisii, the area the soapstone originated from in Western Kenya. This has meant that more miners, carvers and artists have benefited from increased employment. In Nairobi where half of the group is based, 2 more woman have now been employed full time who work on sanding products before they are painted. The group have been saving to buy a plot of land in Kisii to construct a workshop on, with the long term aim of moving all production and packing to Kisii. New producer groups Orders placed in the last 4 months have enabled Zuri Design to start working with 4 new producer groups.
We have also been able to expand the orders that we place with two of our other producer groups - the sisal weavers and Zingari. These two groups are based outside of Nairobi so we are happy to expand the area that the orders are helping in. |
