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Hadithi sales provide an income for people living in a vulnerable ecosystem. By buying handicrafts, customers help to conserve a threatened forest full of wildlife, as well as support local community working to escape poverty.
Impact from 2014 to 2024
Artisan Partners
The benefits created by handicraft sales are numerous:
- They are reducing the reliance upon farming, which is itself unreliable due to scarcity of rain in this semi-arid area.
- They provide an alternative to environmental destruction: an alternative to poaching vulnerable wildlife (elephant, zebra, giraffe…), or cutting down forest for charcoal, timber and farmland.
- They offer a way to preserve beautiful traditions like weaving baskets and beading jewelry, by allowing them to evolve alongside modern market economic developments. More than this, it provides a learning platform for younger generations to continue some of the practices of their forebearers.
- Most importantly, it gives people the ability to sustain their families. Most if not all the money that ladies receive goes straight to education, health and nutrition for the entire family. The ladies making handicrafts get the practice that leads to skills, satisfaction that leads to self-esteem and encouragement that leads to initiative. A feel of a future.
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