Another group sent a shipment to the USA, US$1200 air freight cost, and never got paid. Do not ship anything to anyone anywhere unless they send payment or you ship it COD. I tried to collect but we kept getting all kinds of excuses. The woman died. It is now history. Learn from that experience.

I had a retail craft shop and ordered from a number of countries. Exporting to the USA/Europe is not easy. Go on the internet and find groups doing that for people. Do not pay anything upfront or pay them. Send samples to those with a good reputation.

Thanks for the advice hence today will take time to research on various international organizations or platforms that have good reputation and are in position to take in our products.

Thanks.
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josephat bwire

Hi josephat

If you can give me full information and description, I will forward these to a reputable organization in Hong Kong. they will get to you so as to work on the modalities and terms and conditions

Regards

John

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KILELE JUNIOR SCHOOL
KILELE JUNIOR FOUNDATION

Hi John,

My village has Jewellery and crafts project hence we urgently require market for the products so kindly what information do you require to link this project to the organization in Hong Kong.

Look forward to hear from you

Best regards
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josephat bwire

Hi Ken,

After deliberating your proposals, members agreed to implement the proposal as from next year but before the end of this year, they will establish Chicken rearing because it requires limited capital and small space to manage the project and their is ready available market. Thanks for assisting the group to think outside what they had.
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josephat bwire

Dear Josephat
There are a couple of fair-trade organisations which are based here in Newcastle/Gateshead in the UK who also have a shared office in Kenya.
Traidcraft buys fair trade items for its shops in the UK, and Shared Interest supports producer groups with finance and business help. I suggest you contact Rachel Ngondo, address below, to talk over your project. These guys have long experinece in the craft jewellery and export market and will soon set you on the right track and quickly help you to see if your project is viable.

Shared Interest and Traidcraft contact in Kenya

KENYA OFFICE:

Office address: Rosami Court, Muringa Road, Kilimani, Nairobi, Kenya
Telephone numbers: +254 (0) 20 3861897
+254 (0) 20 3866006/7
Fax number: +254 (0) 20 3866008
Contact name: Rachel Ngondo (Regional Development Executive for Africa)
E-mail address: rachel.ngondo@shared-interest.com
Mobile number: +254 (0) 738 028 569

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All the best
Garry Jenkins

HI Garry

Thanks for the resourceful information hence the group will contact the above organization hence will report back . The group management has meet over the weekend and explored various alternative on income generating project to make the group & projects sustainable and effective hence the group considered various factors hence it came up with the following recommendations

1. Strengthen the jewellery & craft project by improving marketing strategy.
2. Start rearing chicken & rabbits because we have adequate market
3. Research more on farming and by the beginning of 2012 the way forward should be provided regarding farming.

The group kindly look forward to hear from you regarding the proposed steps the group intend to take to ensure its sustainable and effective.
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josephat bwire

Josephat
It sounds like items 1 & 2 are very sensible. I can't comment on 3, farming, as I don't know enough about it, but it tends to be very hard work for little reward!

On the Entrepreneur Training angle, have you heard of The Prince's Turst in the UK. They help vunerable young people by providing entrepreneurship training and start up money. The barbers where I gen my hair cut started as a Princes Trust trainee in the 1990s and she now owns a barbers shop building and employs about 6 people.
The Trust's website might be worth a look, they may have links in Kenya

http://www.princes-trust.org.uk/default.aspx

http://www.princes-trust.org.uk/about_the_trust/what_we_do/programmes/en...

All the best
Garry
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Garry Jenkins

Hi Garry,

Thanks for the advice.

Princes-trust only works in UK

Thanks in advance
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josephat bwire

Sorry Josephat, I guees you've looked at all the obvious ones already. I heard about this project AFFORD on the BBC Radio4 on Monday night. It sound like they are doing some entrprenuer support work, might be worth a look at their website.

http://www.afford-uk.org/index.php

All the best
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Garry Jenkins

Hi Garry,

Thanks for the update hence AFFORD only works with african diaspora to generate development in chosen African Countries unfortunately Kenya is not among the chosen. Thanks as the group continue to cast the nets wider.
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josephat bwire

Hi Josephat Take a look here. http://www.therainforestsite.com/clickToGive/ourprojects.faces?siteId=4&... They sell all kinds of products and operate mainly in the USA but I think there are many Europeans like myself who are signed up to the site and buy from there too.
Just in case you are unsure about how this site works. don't forget to look along the top at the different tabs for different charities and then down the right had side. Because different help is offered in different areas, so whereas the top link I found deals with rainforest related issues, this one is to do with tackling hunger:
http://www.therainforestsite.com/clickToGive/ourprojects.faces?siteId=1&... Hope this makes sense.
At the bottom of the page, it says: Funds are paid by GreaterGood.org to benefiting organizations as a grant. So GreaterGood.org may also be useful to you; there is a media kit which you can download on that site, which is full of information on how they work. The contact details, in case you don't find this are as follows:
Randy Silvey
Business Development
One Union Square
600 University Street, Suite 1000
Seattle, WA 98101-4107
Randys@greatergood.com

Good luck D

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If I am not sure of my next step, I ask or make it up as I go along : D

here is a link to a stores website nearby me that might sell the jewelry. hope it helps. http://www.bajalia.com/home.html
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May I suggest using the internet? If you have access to computers, perhaps try selling them on etsy.com or ebay.com or something like that. It can give you access to markets internationally, to anyone who has an internet connection! It's awesome. I think that you could benefit greatly by using those sites to sell your jewelry or art.
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Erin McKelle

Hello Josephat
Did you ever try Shared Interest? - see address several posts below.

New video:

http://blog.shared-interest.com/2010/03/11/helping-people-in-the-nairobi...

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Garry Jenkins