Ghana Beads Society..alot to learn about beads!

GBS meets at the W.E.
DuBois Center in Cantonments/Accra
on the first Friday of every month
from 2pm-3:30pm.We meet to discuss all aspects
of beads..history,importance, production….etc .Bead & Brass
producers as well as traders come & present their products for sale on those days.

We are looking forward to our next meeting in September.................

Peace Corps partnership

Today we met with Dave McNally, an Associate Director with the Peace Corps, and John Park, a Peace Corps volunteer located near Kumasi. We discussed different areas where we could work together in partnership. We particularly talked with John Park about working with some of the Kente weavers located in his village. We also set up a meeting later in November to meet with some of the local artisans and cement this new relationship.

Beers of the World

In the April/May 07 edition of Beers of the World magazine our beer coffins scored a hit. The piece reminds us that Homer Simpson dreams of being buried in a beer coffin - Homer - eShopAfrica can make your dream come true! Read the piece.

eShopAfrica in National Geographic

In the September 2005 special edition of National Geographic on Africa eShopAfrica was mentioned:

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eShopAfrica.com This Ghana based fair trade website helps African craftspeople build their businesses by offering products ranging from kente cloth and other textiles to custom-made coffins. Profits help pay for education and health care.

Fortune Small Business Feb 05

Coffins to Die For
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In Ghana what you do in life determines the style of your burial. The Ga tribe, located in the country's capital Accra, models coffins to reflect their occupants hobbies and occupations from peacocks for bird lovers to airplanes for pilots. Now five-year-old exporter eShopAfrica.com is giving the burial vessels new life aboveground in the living rooms of Europe and America. British-born founder Cordelia Salter-Nour 47, spent two decades in Africa in technology development before moving to Rome, where she decided to start a company that would give Ghanaian artisans an escape from exploitive practices. &One artist we use, Samuel Naah, paid off his apprentice fees with two commissions from us. Now he has his own business,& says Salter-Nour. Prices range from $125 for desktop chests to $1250 for six foot models. In 2004, eShopAfrica.com's sales for all its art exports - including drums, textiles and jewellery- topped $50,000. - SUE KARLIN

Greenstar.org - Sweatshops and Butterflies

article for Sustainable Development InternationaleShopAfrica.com exports arts from Africa, to help traditional artisans make a decent living. Young people move to the towns, but end up unemployed or homeless because they don't have urban skills. eShopAfrica puts money and prestige back into their lives, building the value of their traditional skills. Visit the site

Digital Dividend - ICTs and Handicrafts

eShopAfrica.com sells arts and crafts from Ghana, and encourages their artisans to learn Internet skills in order to help them develop their own design ideas. Read more