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Products
Batiks, batik post cards and collage
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Crafts of Africa-Kenya is a self help grassroots based marketing organization- registration Number DSS/NP5/4/2002/(168). The offices are located at the National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK) (Jua kali) informal sector light industries along Rabai Road off Jogoo Road on the Eastern side of Nairobi city. Crafts of Africa major focus is to promote handicraft as an important home based income generating activity with the potential for employment and wealth creation. Cultural and socio-economic input of crafts to the country’s cultural heritage and economic development cannot be overemphasized. There is therefore a need to improve the exposure of artisans products for their benefit. This calls for a greater awareness of the role this home stay income generating sector can play in poverty alleviation and in curbing the rural-urban migration trends. Understandably therefore, handicrafts making and export of the same needs to be treated as an important informal sector that has the potential for earning the country the much needed foreign exchange and in uplifting the social economic status of the impoverished grassroots artisans.
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