Furniture, Timber, Gemstones and Kaolin..Sales
Dolls and Toys making using locally available recycled materials is increasingly gaining popularity as an income generating activity particularly with the slum women dwellers. There are many other individual women artisans with similar skills who are already involved in making dolls as a source of income. For a majority of these women, it is a means towards self-reliance. All the toy and doll makers operate from their respective home environment. The women group is comprised of single as well married mothers, who supplement their socio-economic basic needs through making of dolls and toys. There are other women groups in the rural areas of Central province who specialize in traditional doll making using raw materials like maize husks, wood and pieces of rags. Other materials used include "clothes left over". These are bought from various tailor shops. Such wrap up materials are used in making the innovative and ingenious wire bicycle like among others, the riding man or ingeniously made flapping/flying birds. As for the women dolls, materials used are tree bark, beads, and sisal materials. What makes some of the dolls to be more traditional in appearance is that they are dressed with traditional costume or attire. So are the ornamental items. The popular traditional dolls are Turkana "mama", Giriama Dancer, Kikuyu dancer, Maasai warrior, Miss Maasai, Coast lady in their Muslim veil, the mama na mtoto (mother and child), jambo/hello boy and safari dolls such as Zebra, Monkey and Giraffe dolls. The materials used to make most of these dolls and toys are sourced locally. The creativity and enterprising zeal and imaginations of dolls and toys producers extend beyond the Kenyan boarders in that these producers have been able to come up with dolls wearing other African countries' national attire. These dolls are the Ugandan lady, Nigerian lady, Sudan beauty queen including Christmas nativity products. The workmanship on the African dolls is of high quality. However, the ware bicycles and flying like bird are quite an innovative piece of work that arouses curiosity among children particularly boys while girls show interest in other type of african dolls and wire toys.
The banana fibre products are popular for their household utility use. These are items like laundry basket, office waste paper basket, and fruit or egg trays. There are also banana fibre products that serve as house deco. These are art scenes depicting African culture, animals, and nativity products. Of late, the Kikuyu ethnic women community from central province have introduced Banana fiber "Kiondo" basket. Unlike the sisal baskets, the banana fibre "kiondo" do not need any colouring. As for the hand woven banana fibre basketry, the producers are based in Central and western province and even in slum areas. 90% of banana fibre basketry producers are middle-aged women who make the banana basketry to supplement their sources of income. It is also an activity that instills a sense of belonging and security. Most of the producers lifetime dream is to educate their children and acquire or build a better house which has a security of tenure. Like in most slum areas, a majority of the women take both the role of the bread earner and house head. There are many reasons behind it such as having been widowed, divorced or even migrated from rural areas in search of greener pastures in Nairobi just to find themselves in the slum life. Traditionally unlike men, women do not have property right or inherit from their place of origin thus rural land. Therefore their best alternative is to adapt to urban slum life where basic social amenities are not only lacking but inadequate to serve the usually high population of maginalized citizens. The problems that face the slum community and their rural counterpart is poverty and unemployment. Many of the slum dwellers rely on unreliable source of income such as temporary construction work while their women combine their respective source of income with child rearing among other household chores. In order to fight the odds against them, women unlike men have formed their own Banana fibre groups. The common objective is to work as a team as a way of seeking recognition and to empower the group members. This is realised through networking with the powers that be. These women slum groups, source the banana fibre raw material from the rural areas where banana plant is grown. The fibre are collected from the garden while dry and later softened by soaking the fibre overnight before usage.
Handicrafts, hats, home utility, turkana basketry products, traditional pots, modern look ladies handbags, african dolls and wire toys, soapstone sculpture, post cards, wood carving products, jewellery, handicrafts, batik post cards, hats, olive woodcarving and bone batiks products, hats, african ladies bags/ purse, Assorted Loose Beads, Acacia Wood Spoon & Fork, acacia wood bowls, acacia wood trays, Musical Instruments, Fruits/ bread laundry table mats, Banana Fiber, jewellery .Export, by sea freight, and air freight
Wooden Furniture, House Timber Products Like Wardrobes, Doors, Windows, Work Tops, Etc..
Furniture Like Cupboard Draws And Bench.
Kids clothing, toys, and books.
Gifts Items Like Antique Handicrafts Statues..
1. Farm Fresh Produce including Passion Fruits, Avocados, Macadamia, Coconuts 2. Hospital and Medical Equipment.
Wooden furniture, farm produce, minerals.Export and shipping
Doors frames, wardrobes, cabinets, tables, chairs.Manufacturing
face masks, sanitizers,toners, fruits seeds, Tree seeds, carpets, blinds, furniture, farm produce like grains.Exports & import
Office supplies like office furniture, copper and wooden products.Installation, importing and exporting
Bamboo boat bamboo coracle.
Medical x ray films, x ray equipment dental equipment and consumables, hospital furniture, surgical cloves, ultrasound equipment and consumables.
Honey.
Recliner sofa fabric and PU leather, leather office chairs wooden and ply office desks.
Abaya & jilabya, thob, islamic thob, embroidery thob, jalabay, mens abaya . winter thob, traditional clothing, children jalabya, islamic abaya, saudi thoub, alaseel, aldafa, aldaffah, aseel, women abaya, women hijab, islamic hijab.
Antiques, Furniture, Carpets, Gifts, Glassware, Copperware, Artificial Jewellery.
Precious stones, heavy machines, minerals, wooden furniture, donkey skin, electronic equipment's.
