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What Your Purchase Supports
"Life has changed since I started to weave baskets. My children now go to school, I can buy food and clothes. Life is better now — I feel good, and I sleep well at night."
— Mama Magdalene, Kisimenyi Basket Weaver
"My greatest achievement is putting my three girls through high school with the income I've made from basket weaving. They all have high ambitions now: one wants to be a journalist, one wants to be an accountant, and the other a teacher."
— Hannah Paul, Rukanga
A Growing Network
1,800+ women artisans
Each a skilled hand weaving, beading, or sewing
65 women’s groups
Small communities supporting each other
20 villages across Tsavo
Spanning the hills and forest edges where Tsavo's wildlife roams too
These numbers are people — women earning a living, raising families, and building something that lasts. And the network keeps growing.
Choosing Hadithi puts an income directly into a woman's hands. That income keeps her family fed and in school, and takes some of the pressure off the land and wildlife around her.
More than an income
Steady livelihoods: Craft-making gives women a predictable income where farming alone can't be relied on.
Families supported: Most of what's earned goes straight to school fees, medicine, and food.
A trade of her own: Learning to weave or bead gives a woman a skill she owns for life — not tied to one harvest or one season.
Preserving culture: Traditional skills like basket weaving and beadwork are passed down to the next generation.
"With the money I get from selling baskets I was able to pay my children's school fees and buy them uniforms, as well as buy water tanks and solar lights for my home."
Teresia Mulinge, Kisimenyi Basket Weavers
Our Journey of Change — 10 Years of Impact
For a deeper look at the work, the stories, and ten years of progress, download our full impact report.
The Wildlife Connection
These are the elephants who share Tsavo with the women who make our baskets, filmed by our team in Tsavo.
When a harvest fails, families often turn to whatever's left — cutting trees for charcoal, or snaring wildlife for bushmeat, just to get through the season. A steady income from craft work takes that pressure off. It gives a woman another way to provide for her family that doesn't depend on the land, the rains, or the animals around her.
This is exactly what our Wildlife Friendly Certification recognises: an independent confirmation that this livelihood work genuinely eases the pressure on Tsavo's wildlife, elephants included.
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