Africa Products

Meal Tickets and Giving Bowl Set For every 100 Meal Tickets purchased, we will include a beautiful giving bowl. (while supplies last!) -- $25 Find out more...

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. Read more... Meal Tickets Text on meal tickets--"The purchase of this card provided a meal for a child in Kantolomba, an impoverished community in Ndola, Zambia, Africa." Some ways to use them.... Tuck them into gifts. Leave them along with tips for waiters, hotel staff, etc. Give one to anyone to whom you want to express appreciation.--Give them in packs of 20 as gifts to coworkers. Use them as business cards. At work, clip them to requests, e.g., "Please fill out and return by 5:00. Thanks, _____."

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...

Meal Tickets

We weren’t sure what to call these cards, but when our printer referred to them as “meal tickets,” we whooped! That’s exactly what they are! And there must be a thousand ways to use them. Here are some ideas we came up with: Find out more...