Traditional jewellery can also help to sponsor education...

In many cases, parents at Musul cannot afford to help pay the local nursery school teachers or to buy books or pencils, etc, for their children to use whilst at nursery school, so their children cannot attend. Most often, when money is tight, it is the girl-children who are kept at home in favour of their brothers. This means, in some cases, that young girls are getting married as young as 13 years of age without ever having stepped into a classroom or receiving any education.

The local community would like to try and encourage some orders for local traditional beadwork jewellery such as these items made by members of Musul Naramattisho and MBEKEC Women's Groups, with a percentage of the proceeds going towards supporting girl-child education at Musul.

In the meantime, if anyone in my home area is interested in placing any orders of jewellery such as those in this photo before I leave Kenya in early March, then please contact me here at Postcards from Kenya before the end of January and I'll see if I can bring some home with me...

Post Script dated 28/3/07

The above jewellery from Musul is now available by mail-order from UK. If anyone is interested in helping to support Musul's 'Beads for Education', please contact me at CCI-Kenya for further information.