NEEMA
CRAFTS IRINGA
Neema Crafts provides handicrafts training and employment for deaf and
physically disabled people in Iringa ,
Tanzania
Neema Crafts Build
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Disabled employee in production
Cultural products offered in Neema Crafts
The workshop employs deaf people who produce elephant dung paper products (cards, albums, etc), beaded bits and bobs (bracelets, earrings, flip flops) including stuff from their beads they make from recycling glass bottles (ask to go and see their cool mud kiln), cushions, vitenge patchwork blankets, lamps and lamp shades, and more recently have employed disabled folks who are weaving rugs, hammocks, and various other interesting textiles
Beads Wearing products
Tailoring department
The workshop employs deaf people who produce elephant dung paper products (cards, albums, etc), beaded bits and bobs (bracelets, earrings, flip flops) including stuff from their beads they make from recycling glass bottles (ask to go and see their cool mud kiln), cushions, vitenge patchwork blankets, lamps and lamp shades, and more recently have employed disabled folks who are weaving rugs, hammocks, and various other interesting textiles
Disabled working on textile machine
Inside the gallery
The shops now employ over 80 disabled people. In addition to the workshops and the craft store, they also run a restaurant and guesthouse. Visitors are welcome to tour the workshops at no expense though I suspect most who do will find themselves buying a variety of gift items to support their efforts
Neema Crafts Restaurant
Neema Crafts Cultural Dancing Group
Knowing the money you are paying is going to allow more disabled children to get treated for free Along with the obvious benefits of providing employment to people that Tanzanian society has rejected, the products are excellent and make great presents.
Disabled kids, like this one demanding for tourists support
"MAKE A WORLD THE BETTER PLACE"
Life can be very difficult in
The
founder of Neema Crafts had an interest in disabilities, she was born
physically disabled. And she had a background in crafts. She combined these two
interests by founding a workshop and helping four hearing-impaired folks learn
skills they could use to make a living.
The workshop employs deaf people who produce elephant dung paper products (cards, albums, etc), beaded bits and bobs (bracelets, earrings, flip flops) including stuff from their beads they make from recycling glass bottles (ask to go and see their cool mud kiln), cushions, vitenge patchwork blankets, lamps and lamp shades, and more recently have employed disabled folks who are weaving rugs, hammocks, and various other interesting textiles
The workshop employs deaf people who produce elephant dung paper products (cards, albums, etc), beaded bits and bobs (bracelets, earrings, flip flops) including stuff from their beads they make from recycling glass bottles (ask to go and see their cool mud kiln), cushions, vitenge patchwork blankets, lamps and lamp shades, and more recently have employed disabled folks who are weaving rugs, hammocks, and various other interesting textiles
The shops now employ over 80 disabled people. In addition to the workshops and the craft store, they also run a restaurant and guesthouse. Visitors are welcome to tour the workshops at no expense though I suspect most who do will find themselves buying a variety of gift items to support their efforts
Knowing the money you are paying is going to allow more disabled children to get treated for free Along with the obvious benefits of providing employment to people that Tanzanian society has rejected, the products are excellent and make great presents.
"MAKE A WORLD THE BETTER PLACE"
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