Kisumu, Kenya - Creative Alternatives Making Dancing Girls

In Kisumu, Kenya, making the dancing girl provides a livelihood for many craftspeople in the area. Made from recycled tin, copper wire, beads, the dancing girl has been made into pairs of earrings, pinned to greeting card, had her body shaped like a heart and a tree, and her head like a star. Shes sprouted wings and worn Santa suits. Her body has been made from scrap tin, tin cans, and most recently ubiquitous scratch off phone cards that litter Kenya. Creative Alternatives is an organization that operates under the auspices of Fair Trade and pays the artisans a fair price for the products they make.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Kenya
• dancing girl
• recycled jewelry
• fair trade