Die meisten Partner für traditionelle Kunsthand-Gewerke kommen aus afrikanischen Ländern. Es sind viele kleine Produzenten, die mit ihrem Handwerk das Überleben vieler Großfamilien sichern. Hier unsere Partner aus Ostafrika:

Bark Cloth Taschen und Accessoires Uganda

Seit über zehn Jahren ist Asango Enterprises unser Hauptlieferant für kenianische Handarbeiten. Mittlerweile sind wir echte Freunde geworden mit sales managerin Sophia Miser Okuoro und Ehemann William Ongele, der künstlerische Leiter in den Werkstätten. William hilft vielen Kunsthandwerkerfamilien kleine Werkstätten aufzubauen, während Sophie häufig auch alleine weltweit auf Messen Kunden akquiriert. Auch die ein oder andere individuelle Fertigung für unsere Kunden konnte schon mal angefertigt werden! Wir haben immer offenes Haus füreinander und fanden nach vierlen Jahren sogar die Zeit zur gemeinsamen Safari in der Masai Mara und zur Schiffahrt auf dem Rhein.

Jarida Crafts, Kenia

Our Motto: Lift up the standard life for hardworking youth, self support is the best support ever.

We believe everything starts small and can only grow if we have the patience, Creativity, hard work, exposure, endurance. Jarida Crafts believes that big companies and individuals started small and their growth did not come in a day. Everything is a state of mind, including poverty and riches, thus Jarida Crafts youth believe they can use their hands and creativity to earn a living and also change for the better.

We are:

• Young people who dropped out of school due to problems facing their families.
• Young mothers who got pregnant while schooling, and after giving birth had basic needs for themselves and their child whose father abandoned them.
• Young boys from the streets.
• Talented youths who wish to share their art creativity with others.

Our Objectives:

• Lift up the standard of life for young people by keeping them busy in crafts.
• Introduce sports as part time to keep off youths from idling after work.
• Introduce women in basketry and try to fight against child abuse and build up a voice for the girl children.
• Teach members the dangers of unsafe sex, and drugs.
• Give hope to the young people who almost lost hope in life by teaching them crafts so that can recover from their past mistakes, such as early pregnancy and drug addiction.
• Teach them about assets and liabilities because our youths tend to use their money they buy the wrong things.
• Get individual volunteers from anywhere in the world who can help work for the benefit of others by either selling or crafts or come up with different ideas that can eventually help our group.
• To open up boarders in all over east Africa community and this can only work with a strong foundation with good response.

 
Giving Back

• We conserve the cleanness of the society by picking up the waste as our materials.
• We discourage the idling among youths by involving them in crafts and sports so many youth start crafts as a way of passing time which eventually become their profession in life. (Quelle Import Shop Berlin)

Materials

Most of our materials are already used and have been thrown away.  We take and turn them into useful products like.  Some of our materials include air freshener containers, bottle tops, coke cans, wires, used tin sheets, used papers.  We also things that grow in our natural environment, like banana leaves, tree bark and soap stone.
 

Our Products

• Picture frames from banana leaves, maize cobs, and tree bark
• Greeting cards from wire and tins
• Bookmarks from scrap materials and leather
• Mobiles, spice tins, business card holders, pen holders, file holdesr, ear rings all from used tins
• Wooden birds, animals, letter openers from natural wood
• All types of soap stone product, chess, plates, candle holder, animals

Afrikanische Textilkunst aus Tansania
Marvelous, Daresalam, Tanzania fertigt Taschen und Accessoires, Kissenhüllen und Wohnaccessoires in unterschiedlichen Stoffmustern mit afrikanischen Designs. Marvelous wurde 1992 als Fraueninitiative in Tanzania gegründet mit dem Ziel, für handgefertigte Textilien und Dekorationen einen Markt zu schaffen und Schulungsmöglichkeiten für kleinere Handwerksgruppen zu  ermöglichen. Seitdem wurden erfolgreich über 200 überwiegend Frauenhandwerksgruppen geschult und ausgebildet. In Kinondoni Mkwajuni arbeiten 26 Frauen (hauptsächlich in der Produktion und in der Qualitätskontrolle) und 9 Männer.

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