Africa Products

 

Colorful Chitenge Placemats
Sande and Lin’s Sewing Circle (read more), a small group of big-hearted women from San Diego, have transformed “wild-colored chitenge" from Zambia into playful placemats for your table. No two are alike. All proceeds support the work of Living Compassion’s Africa Vulnerable Children Project. Find out more...

Baby Hats and Booties
These are pretty darn cute. When we brought these back from Zambia, we had to wash them to clean the African dust that pervades everything there. Find out more...

Chitenge
What is it about this magical material that just shouts Africa and brings such smiles to our faces? Is it that we are reminded of our friends who are wrapped from head to toe in this fabric? Or that their children are toted around on their backs in these? Mostly it reminds us of walking from shop to shop picking through bundles of samples for bags, pants, placemats, and other goodies produced by the Kantolomba sewing co-op.
 
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Giving Bowls

Beatrice is a true rustic potter.  She forms, glazes, and fires beautiful pottery using only her hands and a fire pit she has dug in her backyard. Every day Beatrice gathers clay from the banks of a small creek fed by the Kafubu River. She carries the clay on her head, in the tradition of African women, back to the small mud hut she shares with her carpenter husband and their children. Find out more...