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Kazi
KAZI has created employment opportunities for over 4,575 artisans from Rwanda, Uganda, and Ghana, providing them with market access, training, and education to establish a sustainable enterprise, helping them earn up to 10x traditional wages, and transform them into inspirational, and respected community and business leaders, impacting over 100,000 community and 19,000 family members, empowering them to improve their lives.
KAZI stands for ethically handcrafted products using sustainable materials with quality craftsmanship and is a member of the Fair Trade Federation and implements fair trade practices across their organization. They are also one of only five companies to carry the Nest Seal of Ethical Handcraft on their Rwanda and Uganda products, ensuring that all items are ethically crafted in a home or small workshop.
KAZI joins with Every Mother Counts to support maternal health and delivery around the world. KAZI seeks to alleviate poverty in Africa by building sustainable jobs, markets, and lives for rural women artisans and their families.
BRAND VALUES
Artisans make things using traditional crafting methods in line with sustainable and eco-friendly practices.
Designed and produced using innovative techniques to measure, offset, and reduce carbon emissions.
Products designed to cause the least harm to people and the environment through their production, disposal or both, often using reclaimed or recycled materials.
A formalized or witnessed organizational commitment to upholding moral standards including fairness, honesty, and expectations of responsiveness and accountability.
These products are made so that social, environmental, and economic standards are met to improve the lives of communities. Workers are ensured fair prices, livable wages, and direct and transparent deals.
This ethical practice also aims to educate women and providing opportunities to support themselves, their communities, and encouraging other women to do the same.
Awareness of where materials for a product are procured ensuring they are done so in a sustainable and eco-friendly manner.
Products designed including input from consumers to ensure efficient design and sustainable usage.
Products designed to meet current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs. Design, materials, manufacturing, product transport, disposal, and social practices are aspects of sustainability.