You can accessorise, look fabulous, save the planet and give impoverished women in Uganda a better life with our unique and beautiful necklaces made from recycled magazines!
Each piece is unique, handmade and fairly traded in Uganda.
| These necklaces are made by women from Kinawataka Women Initiatives (KiWI) in Kampala, Uganda, a co-operative founded by seventy five Ugandan women seeking to make a better life for themselves and their children. Many of these women are widows or themselves living with HIV / AIDS and caring for AIDS orphans |  |
They are ingeniously fashioned from surplus magazines and glossy brochures or leaflets. These beads are made with a care and eye for detail that ensures each piece is beautiful, individual and a pleasure to wear. Thin strips of paper are laboriously wound around a tiny pick of wood and periodically glued and fashioned until a bead, the right shape and colour, is produced. After the bead has dried it is varnished to provide the high gloss finish and then colour matched with beads of a similar hue before being strung.
If you would like to purchase some beads please visit our online shop.