 |
Special Offer for Travel + Leisure Readers
We'd like to welcome Travel + Leisure readers to our web site!
We've set up this special page so you can receive a 15% discount on
the beautiful Samburu beaded bowls and boxes featured in the November 2007 Travel + Leisure issue (page 247 of the magazine).
These traditional crafts are from one of Africa's oldest tribes.
After adding our specially discounted items into your shopping cart, we invite you to surf
the rest of our site.
You might wish to see
Kenyan soapstone carvings and
Rwandan woven baskets,
for example.
 |
Sets of 3 Nesting Beaded Boxes
These cylinder boxes with lids have so many uses - declutter your desk or
dresser, collect change ... and they're ever so decorative.
Plus they help struggling Samburu artisans.
They're available as a Large or Small set of 3 nesting boxes.
|
|
Set of 3 Large
Kenyan Beaded Boxes |
4-6" nesting diameter/height
KB-BOX-SET-3-L |
$88.00
SPECIAL PRICE: $74.80 |
|
|
Set of 3 Small
Kenyan Beaded Boxes |
2-4" nesting diameter/height
KB-BOX-SET-3-S |
$47.00
SPECIAL PRICE: $39.95 |
|
|
Ol Malo Designs is a company owned and run by Julia Francombe that provides employment
and help for the Samburu people in Kenya, and develops their talents through art.
Julia employs more than 100 Samburu women who do the incredible beadwork, a native skill.
These Kenyan beaded products are sold locally in the Ol Malo Designs shop, and internationally
through distribution partners.
This bead work provides the Samburus with employment and income and encourages them to
promote their timeless talents.
During the severe drought in 2000, Ol Malo fed over 200 families who had lost all their livestock -
and were literally starving -- through the sales of these products.
To help address and prevent disasters like this, Julia created the Ol Malo Trust which has grown
into a pioneering community charity, building a bustling nursery school, protecting several water
sources, organizing mobile health clinics, and supporting the Ol Malo Eye Project to eradicate
trachoma in one of the most remote regions of Africa.
Trachoma is an infectious eye that affects more than 80% of adults over the age of 30.
It is a preventable disease, the root of which is poverty.
Supported by product sales and fundraising efforts such as the Nairobi marathon,
Ol Malo has funded more than 200 surgical procedures to return sight and remove pain;
established nurse-led community education;
begun the provision of clean water and has developed links with and training of Kenyan Ophthalmologists.
|
Kenyan Glass Beaded Bowls
These beautiful beaded bowls can be purchased as a set of 3 nesting bowls in two sizes, or just a single bowl.
Sizes and designs will vary somewhat.
(For an example of multi-colored bowls, please see black background photo below.)
|
|
|
|
|
Set of 3 Large
Kenyan Nesting Beaded Bowls
$70.00
SPECIAL PRICE: $59.50
About 4" - 5" in diameter.
KB-BOWL-SET-3-L
|
|
Set of 3 Small
Kenyan Nesting Beaded Bowls
$44.00
SPECIAL PRICE: $37.40
KB-BOWL-SET-3-S
| |
One
Kenyan Beaded Bowl
$28.00
SPECIAL PRICE: $23.80
KB-BOWL-1
|
The production of these beaded items contributed to the
receipt of ‘Overall Joint Winner’,
along with
‘Best for Poverty Reduction’ in the highly competitive
First Choice Responsible Tourism Awards given to organizations that are making a
significant commitment to responsible tourism.
As the event organizer explained,
"They value, most highly of all, their interaction with the community through the women and children who come to Ol Malo to produce beadwork and paintings.
This a chance for Ol Malo to see if they are achieving their aim for the community: to contribute to the preservation of the
Samburu people in such a way that the Samburus are independent, strong and empowered to live their lives in the
way that they strongly desire and choose."
Learn More...
|
Holiday Samburu Table Package!
Bring Ol Malo ambiance into your home with this limited edition
Holiday Samburu Table Package!
|
Each set includes:
All pieces are beautifully wrapped in a banana fiber box. |
 |
Each piece
is hand-beaded with care by the Samburu women of the Sampiripiri Arts workshop, Ol Malo.
By creating a beautiful Samburu-style holiday at home,
you will bestow a wonderful gift on the Samburu people and provide them with a very Merry Christmas!
Your purchase of a beaded Table Package will provide a Samburu woman with three weeks work and enable her to give her family a fabulous Christmas feast
and many of life's necessities. To the left is a close-up of a napkin ring.
We'll give you a Travel + Leisure Special Discount, PLUS Free Ground Shipping!
Normally $695, your price will be $550.
|
(This offer is limited to the quantities currently in stock. Wholesale clients, please contact us for pricing.) |
|
|
|
|
|
Your Global Marketplace for Socially and Environmentally Responsible Gifts
One World Projects, Inc.
Billing Address 43 Ellicott Ave Batavia, NY 14020
Store/Warehouse 56 Harvester Ave Batavia, NY 14020
Tel: 585.343.4490
Fax: 585.344.3551
E-mail: sales@oneworldprojects.com
NEW! Gift Certificates for on-line purchases! A thoughtful gift any day, any time.
[Home]
[About Us]
[Products]
[Search]
[What's New]
[Affiliates]
[Contact Us]
[Privacy]
And don't forget to visit
our CLEARANCE PAGE frequently!
Fairly Traded Gifts from Around the World
 |
One World Projects is a member of the Fair Trade Federation,
Coop America, Social Venture Network, and the
Aid to Artisan Trade Network.
We're committed to helping economically disadvantaged artisans and farmers worldwide in a environmentally beneficial manner. |
| |
