The Zamimpilo Arts and Craft Market, South Africa

Dossier

CIVICUS World Assembly 2010 - Acting Together for a Just World Subscribe

CIVICUS is a worldwide community of informed, inspired, committed citizens engaged in confronting the challenges facing humanity.

This year the CIVICUS World Assembly returns to Canada after 9 years. Montreal will host the next 3 World Assemblies from 2010-2012, the first of which will take place from 20-23 August this year. This year's general theme is "Acting Together for a Just World".

CIVICUS is a worldwide community of informed, inspired, committed citizens engaged in confronting the challenges facing humanity.

This space is for citizens and organizations who want to share images, videos, audio pieces or articles relevant to the World Assembly.Now it's your turn to speak!

Film

The Zamimpilo Arts and Craft Market, South Africa

Contributed by Eugene Marais

Director:

Eugene Marais

License:

Attribution Share Alike (by-sa)

Producer:

Eugene Marais

The Zamimpilo Arts and Craft Market, Kwa Zulu Natal consists of 164 women who make a living by selling Arts and Crafts, produced in a symbiotic relationship with the environment. They make their living by harvesting the wetlands of Kwa Zulu Natal. The clay for their pottery, the grass for their bags and matts, the dye - obtained by boiling leaves from indigenous trees - are all natural products from the Wetlands.

The Department of Agriculture, Environmental Affairs and Rural Development in Kwa Zulu Natal equipped the women with the knowledge to harvest and maintain the the Wetlands in a sustainable way.

The products are made with hours of human dedication, yet you can buy items for as cheap as $10. No toxic factories. Virtually zero carbon emissions in manufacturing. All hand made.

We believe that there are sound reasons to develop trade with these communities. The products are endowed with and embedded in humanity, there are no clinical molds, no creepy mechanistic robots, virtually the only carbon emissions are from breathing:)

Comments

The clay for their pottery,

by Pickle

Thu, 03/01/2012 - 10:25

The clay for their pottery, the grass for their bags and matts, the dye - obtained by boiling leaves from indigenous trees yacht charter zadar

This is a creative way of

by Mia Weiman

Sat, 02/25/2012 - 15:00

This is a creative way of making money and the items they create are really nice, I would like to have some of them. I can see that they put a lot of work in it. I like the wooden masks a lot, I have seen similar ones when I was browsing some free classified ads some time ago and I wanted to buy a couple but I don't know why I changed my mind.

Great blog and very good written also.

by budi wijaya

Wed, 01/18/2012 - 06:43

Great blog and very good written also.it helps clear up some questions I had. thank you. success.
http://www.bellefever.com.au

name necklace

Creative Industries. The

by cynthiapayton

Sun, 10/16/2011 - 21:45

Creative Industries. The sub-sectors within the Creative Industries that have been prioritised for development are Craft and Design, Music, the Performing Arts, Film and Video Production, Technical Production Services for events, and Multimedia. phen375

Guiding

by wiggle

Mon, 09/19/2011 - 13:17

Guiding and teaching them, can let them learn new things. This will be their step to let them now the society specially is that rural areas that education is really that impossible.

buy silver coins