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Come view authentic African sculptery works ranging from Maasai carvings, Kisii soapstone, animal sculptors, ancient drums, beads, bowls and batiks depicting the cultural heritage from our ancestors. Come see the sculptors at work transforming a chunk of wood into a cultural relic! Visit our showroom and behold over 500 woodcarvers at work, and view all the stages in the making of an African sculpture.
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The Malindi Handcraft Co-operative Society was registered in 1986 under the Kenya Co-operative Society Act with a beginning membership of 30 highly skilled woodcarver artisans. The primary aim of the formation of the co-operative was to give the power of business ownership back to the people-in our case our woodcarvers. By forming the cooperative, our members hoped to create a better life for themselves, their families, and their community. Over the next 20 years, these woodcarvers worked diligently to share the benefits of business ownership with others while keeping the tradition of woodcarving alive and thriving.What started on borrowed land has evolved and grown to become an organization of over 640 highly skilled woodcarvers. We are today the second largest handicraft co-operative in Kenya and the only biggest industry in Malindi town with a total share capital of Ksh 2,754,050.00
The Co-operative is owned and operated by its member woodcarvers. We are in the process of gaining fair trade certification through the Cooperation for Fair Trade in Africa (COFTA). Read More |
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The artisans working with Malindi Handicrafts have been using the Fair Wage Guide since 2007 to determine their labor cost and ensure they are charging enough for their products to cover a fair wage. Malindi Handcrafts is the second largest producer of hand carved functional and decorative wood pieces in Kenya. They work with 1560 carvers, who make over 1000 unique designs. “This Fair Wage Guide has been invaluable to us and is now paving the way for us to maintain records for our items and actually recording the labor involved with making our pieces,” claimed Grover Ainsworth, a Peace Corps Volunteer working with Malindi. “ We were actually producing one item for a client at a loss and did not realize it until we used the Wage Guide. When we forwarded the Wage Guide results to our client, the client agreed to pay the higher price for the item. So, please keep up the most excellent work.”
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