AFYA [Health]
When was the last time you took medication? Went to the doctor? Or had medical tests, surgery or ongoing treatment.
Health care can be complicated and expensive and can be difficult to access. And we know where we live can make a huge difference to our healthcare and our lives.
Our red Africa pouch is for healthcare. It’s for the connection we all have to taking care of ourselves, and our loved ones. Your purchase of this bag will both invest in creating creative employment, and investing in healthcare for those we work alongside in East Africa: For glasses, contributions towards surgery, for medication, for hospital visits.
If you take regular medication, get a bag and use it for yourself. This bag is a direct connection to a partnership of access to healthcare.
A thousand small choices add up. Little by little our trade becomes transformative. Our investment in products engages passion and innovation, and creates new projects. Employment becomes sustainable, safe, empowering, unique and meaningful. Choose to be a change maker, choose to support makers and creators.
Invest in beautiful products and hardworking communities.
Our Beaded Batiki Africa Pouch features custom hand crafted Batiki made for us by Esther in Tanga, Tanzania. The heart of our work is to connect you to talented East African artisans, and for you to know them by name.
The connections we make on our journeys is fundamental to our interconnected stories.
We are inviting you to participate in our training of our team of women for our Kukua Pamoja :: Growing Together project we are establishing in the village in Tabora, rural central Tanzania. Our beading project will begin with you - your identity is fundamental to our beginning. We are creating unique beaded products to learn the skill of intricate design. Your purchase of a handcrafted bag will fund our team training. The project is viable and the women are ready, the seeds have been planted and we are ready to put in the work to take this idea and make it grow.
Our AFRICA bags are premium and created to be treasured forever.
Each bag is created by hand from premium glass Japanese Miyuki beads, stitched onto a lush heavyweight German linen. This is paired with our direct trade hand stamped and and hand dyed batiki and our deluxe designer denim. The bag is padded and has a draw string closure with crushed recycled glass beads from West Africa. Lined in a premium linen/cotton fabric.
The bag measurements are:
22cm wide and 25cm high
Care: We recommend taking it everywhere on adventure with you, and to avoid washing.
*Please note this product is currently made to order, and requires a 2 week production time*