When you buy an Ayacucho jacket, jumper or hat at A.S. Adventure, you can read on the label that part of your money goes to Solid, a non-profit organisation that finances social projects in the south. Where does that money end up? We found out in Kenya.
About twenty women dance to the rhythm they indicate with their feet. Doof. Puff-puff. A woman has tied a shoulder strap full of dangling and shakes her shoulders for an extra musical accent. Their whole bodies sway as they sing the same thing over and over again. That they are glad we are here. And that they weave baskets which they bring to 'mama Lora'. The colourful parade dances to a new half-open building among the trees. Four walls, a corrugated iron roof, a water tank and one room with a door; it is the It is the new community house where the women of Kisimenyi weave and store baskets, sheltered from rain and sun. While Lore Defrancq is being praised for the supportive work that her organisation Hadithi is doing for this women... (full article in Dutch)
