Ten Thousand Villages Projects and Amani

Tues February 28, 2006
Ev arranged for us to go along with Beth Ropp who works for Ten Thousand Villages as a buyer for TTV US and for MCC Income Generation Project (helping small businesses with ideas, bookkeeping, etc.). She took us to a ceramic project called African Clay & Arts and Jacaranda, a place where disabled people make beaded and brass-wire jewelry. Our last stop was to Amani ya Jun (means “higher peace”), a training project in sewing and marketing for African refugees. Their products were beautiful. We enjoyed a delicious lunch there after lots of shopping.