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MMAA ZIMBABWE
As the Collectives in Ghana grow and thrive, we are thrilled to share new baskets from Zimbabwe. ASIGE Ghana is now one of the largest Ghanaian owned and run Bolgatanga basket weaving enterprises that started with 30 women and now counts nearly 500 artisans. The Collectives in Zimbabwe are being mentored by ASIGE to help magnify their experience and impact across borders.
Both the Collectives in Ghana and Zimbabwe are supported by CAMFED, the Campaign for Female Education, Alumnae. CAMFED supports vulnerable girls to go to school, learn, thrive, and become leaders and change-makers in their communities. When you educate a girl, everything really does change.
Meet the collectives
The Binga Collective
The Tsolotsho Collective
The Tsolotsho Collective
Tusumpulane, which means uplifting communities, currently consists of seven young women in a rural area 67km from Binga centre. Binga is well known as one of the basket making centres in Zimbabwe, if not in all of Africa, similar to Bolgatanga! The group offers skills transfer and development through a range of training programs and men
Tusumpulane, which means uplifting communities, currently consists of seven young women in a rural area 67km from Binga centre. Binga is well known as one of the basket making centres in Zimbabwe, if not in all of Africa, similar to Bolgatanga! The group offers skills transfer and development through a range of training programs and mentorship for marginalized rural women and youth in order to build their resilience and help reduce child marriage, exploitation and poverty. In addition, as a group, the artisans use their own profits to provide food to impoverished households, assist students with school fees or necessities like uniform or stationary with a particular emphasis on girls at the verge of dropping out of school.
The Tsolotsho Collective
The Tsolotsho Collective
The Tsolotsho Collective
NGAMO CAMA Basketry weaving was founded in 2017 by five young women with the support of two “Mother Support” members. The Mother Support members are older mothers in the community that band together to support young girls and women with their schooling and then income earning activities. The innovative work fuses traditional weaving tec
NGAMO CAMA Basketry weaving was founded in 2017 by five young women with the support of two “Mother Support” members. The Mother Support members are older mothers in the community that band together to support young girls and women with their schooling and then income earning activities. The innovative work fuses traditional weaving techniques with the use of materials like elephant and savanna grass alongside recycled plastic bags. The group, on the border of the Hwange National Park, relied heavily on tourists to the area and trade fairs in the capital to sell their baskets – both of which have been detrimentally impacted by the COVID 19 pandemic. It is our hope that we can work with them (and you!) to share their beautiful baskets with the world.