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Bonfil Orphanage Just outside Cancun, Mexico, there is a small orphanage called "Casa Hogar Esperanza". This "House of Hope and Faith" is run by Asencio and Esther Mancilla who started this home nearly 20 years ago when someone left an infant on their doorstep. |
Back to School Inspired by Jeff Scott, our Cambodian Back to school program was able to expand to become a resounding success. 120 children are now in school, families are becoming self-sustaining, and we were lucky enough to facilitate it. |
Loscarasucias Children's Home Global Colors board member Joy Haynes went to Argentina and while there decided to do a little Guerrilla Aid. In a short amount of time she met every immediate need of a children's home outside of Buenos Aires. |
Women Fuelwood Carriers Just outside of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, there are women who hike roughly 18 miles a day collecting wood to be sold in the market. The weight of the packs they carry can be up to 70 lbs. - close to the weight of some of the women - and they do it all for about $2. |
Development in Gardening We partnered with an amazing organization, Development in Gardening (DIG), to create vegetable gardens next to hospitals in Africa.We worked at Hospital Fann in Dakar, Senegal, and created something so unique it brought First Lady Laura Bush to visit. |
Cows for the Maasai After the September 11 attacks, the very poor people of the Maasai banded together and raised enough money to buy fourteen cows - their most prized possession -to give as a gift to America to help us heal. We decided to go over and thank them by repaying the gesture... |
Jeff Scott We were contacted by the friends and family of Jeff Scott to see if we could do any sort of project in his memory, and so we set out to get to know the man Jeff had become, and create a project work in his honor. |
CAA Envirotrade Creative Artists Agency (CAA) selected Global Colors to launch their International Volunteer Vacation Program, having us take CAA employees to Mozambique and South Africa for a reforestation and outreach project. |
UCLA at Angkor Thom While in Cambodia in 2005, we met a group of children being taken care of by the monks near Temple Bayon in Angkor Thom just north of Siem Reap, and they eventually became the inspiration to start Global Colors. It was only fitting that our first project was to go back and thank them.
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Just outside Nairobi, there is an amazing place for disadvantaged women called... KAZURI
We solidified our working partnership with The Kazuri Bead Company on our most recent trip to Kenya. By partnering with them, we hope to bring further awareness for the women and their product, which will in turn create more demand for the jewelry, and then create more employment!
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In 1975, Lady Susan Wood set up a fledging business making beads in a small shed in her back garden. She started by hiring two disadvantaged women, and quickly realized that there were many more women who were in need of jobs, and so Kazuri Beads was created and began its long and successful journey. It has become a help center for the needy women (especially single mothers) who had no other source of income.
They are a model for African commerce, as they are one of the few companies that provide healthcare, day care, pay three times the annual wage, and offer credit and savings plans. Today Kazuri - the Swahili word for 'small and beautiful' - produces a wide range of hand made ceramic jewelry that shines with a kaleidoscope of African colors and Kenyan art, appealing to a worldwide fashion market. Kazuri's beautifully finished products are made to an international standard and are sold worldwide. These standards are maintained through high training standards and a highly motivated management team. Global Colors is extremely proud and excited regarding our partnership with Kazuri!
To see and purchase Kazuri necklaces, please visit KAZURIWEST.COM, and remember, the more beads we sell, the more women we take off the street in Africa!
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They came to Kenya in 1947 and were dedicated to making a difference. Lady Wood started a coffee plantation on the Karen Blixen estate, famous from the award winningmovie "Out of Africa", about 30 minutes from the bustling Nairobi city center. Lady Wood was a visionary - an unsung hero of her time - and she assisted her husband in founding the East African Flying Doctor Service, which expanded into the African Medical Research Foundation (AMREF) of which Michael Wood was Director General for 29 years. Michael Wood was knighted in 1985.
In 1988 Kazuri became an actual factory and expanded hugely with over 120 women and men. Here women are trained and apply their skills to produce these unique and beautiful beads and jewelry. The beads are made with clay from the Mt Kenya area thus giving them authenticity to their craft. The factory acts as a social gathering with the hum of voices continuing throughout the day. With unemployment so high, one jobholder often ends up providing for an
"extended family" of 20 or more. Kazuri is a member of the Fair Trade Act
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