Artisan Impact: Kenya

Each sculpture is artfully hand-carved from a single piece of Kisii soapstone, found in the hills of southwestern Kenya. Mining the soapstone from surface hills is a labor-intensive process, using little to no machinery. Artisans follow traditional methods passed down through the ages, working with shovels, picks, axes and machetes to carve out large soapstone chunks, which are then carved using small hand tools into beautiful artwork!  

Please read this quote below, from Bonface Okeyo, director of Tabaka Chigware Youths Self Help Group, one of our newest artisan partner groups who we began partnering with during the pandemic.  Each purchase you make provides more safe, living wage work for this wonderful community, in high need through this time of global crisis and recovery. 

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"Tabaka area people depends on soapstone handcrafts production to get their daily meal but due to outbreak of corona virus worldwide.some of have us we do not have anyway on how we can get our foods since there is no order coming in that easy."
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