The following is a message from Rachel Ngondo, Shared Interest’s Regional Development Executive – Afrtica.

It was good meeting you all last month and catching up again. We had  lots of fun too!

Back in Nairobi and reflecting about my trip to the UK for the last few weeks.

It  is always a pleasure for me to meet members  and bringing to life what their investments are achieving with regards to changing people’s lives especially here in Africa where food prices have gone up, production costs have gone up and producers are making  less from their sweat.

But it’s not always  a grim picture. This week I met with   Daniel of KISAC one of our existing customers.

KISAC produce soapstone  and sell to the American market. They have specialised on the heart shaped soapstone carving which sells a lot during valentine and all other occasions really.  You see the symbol of ‘Love’ always works even in times of  crisis. We always want to feel someone loves us and cares for us.  Daniel came to thank  Shared Interest for  supporting their organisation.  KISAC are now discussing with Ten Thousand Villages and hopefully they will start selling to them. In addition, they  now have a website! www.kisac.co.ke They did not have it when we first started working with them. What makes happy is that we have enabled the widows who work with KISAC access a livelihood.

Rachel

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