ITEMS FOR SALE
Items made
can be seen in the Onacar online store
http://www.etsy.com/shop/Onacar
Contact in Kenya for items in bulk:
ONGESA
MOINDE WILLS
omwills@yahoo.com
ONSONGO
ARTISANS and CARVERS
SELF HELP GROUP
"ONACAR"
The village is very poor, but Wills has gathered together a group of men and women from the village to form a "self help group", making small items for tourists from local materials. It is an age old tradition in the village that only the men quarry and carve the soapstone, and the women make other items.
This is the only income for these villagers. Wills packs the items into boxes and makes a two hour journey by bus to Kisumu to try to sell them. He returns to the village and his family once a week.
We shall be importing some of these items to sell, and will be offering them here on this web site in the near future. We have ordered a thousand of the various cards, plus a few of the necklaces. It isn't our intention to add on any profits. We'll simply sell them at the price we give for them.
The important thing is that we shall be supporting the village by buying their work.
We were particularly impressed by the hand made greeting cards, made from banana leaf, with stylised African animals.
Carved soapstone animals and crosses, used as
necklaces.
Above: banana leaves hanging to dry, ready to be made into cards.
Above: Making cards
Below: Making necklaces
Mining soapstone near the village, and carving a large sculpture.
Above: The Onsongo widows
Above: A partly carved elephant
Various soapstone carvings in the shop.
A larger carved ornament from a single piece of soapstone.
Lovely boxes with lids come in various sizes. The box
is carved from a single piece of soapstone.
Above: A traditional chess set and board
Below: A chess set of African animals
Contact in Kenya for items in bulk:
ONGESA MOINDE WILLS
omwills@yahoo.com
ITEMS FOR SALE
Items made
can be seen in the Onacar online store
http://www.etsy.com/shop/Onacar
