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Africa My Bra - Cape Town, South Africa
- Currently employs 21 previously
unemployed men and women. - Donates a portion of its profits
to the Tourism Community
Development Trust, which
promotes early childhood
development programs in the
communities in which the
producers work.
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- Compensates its employees at a level that is twice that of
the South African minimum wage. - Provides materials to producers and pays them upon
completion of work. Key strategies that reduce potential
financial barriers to employment for the producers.
Mielie - Cape Town, South Africa
- Currently employs approximately 30
people who work from their homes in
the greater Cape Town area, some
of whom have physical disabilites. - Mielie's range of fabulous off-beat
handbags and accessories are
handmade from recycled materials.
They use as little machinery as
possible, thereby creating as many
jobs as possible.
- Why Mielie? Mielie is Afrikaans for corn, the staple diet of
most South Africans, and probably the first item on most
of the weaver's shopping list. The hooked rug products
also feel like kernels on a corn cob.
Fair Trade
Gifts and
Accessories
Gifts and
Accessories