"Significant portions of the population will continue to require emergency food assistance in the coming years..." These words echo from a recent State Department release on Kenya. As a whole, the country is in a dire need of infrastuctural and ecomonic development.

These 11 inch salad servers are carved in mpingo wood ("African ebony")with a cow bone handle.Treated with oil they should last a life time. Handle designs will vary.

made from olive wood and hand carved.

Tucked inside a box woven from banana fiber are seven different African animals carved from renewable muhugu wood.

Made by the young women at Shanzu Transitional Workshop in Mombasa, this colorful coin purse with zipper closure is functional and sturdy. Size will vary but the width is approximately 4 inches.

Made from thousands of abandoned flip flops that litter the Indian Ocean in Kenya

These six carved animals sit around a map of Africa.Each animal is approximately 8 inches tall.

This set of six napkin rings is carved from African Mahogany, using simple tools.

Handcarved in Kenya, these small bone spoons forks and spreaders are decorated with a batik design on the handle.

We love these olive wood bowls that are carved from very old tree stumps on the Kahero Farm in Kenya's Rift Valley. The new owners of the farm had the stumps dug from the ground and cut into pieces. The herdsmen who work the farm carve the pieces into bowls with hand tools and sell them for extra income. The shape of each bowl is unique some are shallow with thick bases, some oblong with divets on the edges.

Fun to wear alone or in bunches, this Maasai bangle is a rubber ring wrapped in beads and comes in about a billion colors. The bangle gives a little to get over your hand but not too much

Some of the favorite recycled jewelry items are the "dancing girl" pins and earrings, made of recycled wire and scraps of tin by craftspeople in Kisumu, Kenya and finished by TEMAK

This dancing girl pin made from recycled tin in Kisumu Kenya celebrates life by dancing to her own tune. Adorned with colorful Maasai beads.

This Nativity set is handcrafted out of banana fiber wrapped on wire.

This traditional African instrument is a Kalimba or Finger Piano. It is handmade in Kenya, East Africa. All sizes vary depending on the scraps of wood used but the approximate size is 6 by 3.5 by 1.5 inches.

Produced in Kisumu, Kenya, these cards that depict African Life are pieces of scrap tin from sheets of misprinted bottle caps that are painted brilliant colors and mounted on white card.

These colorful tin bookmarks are made of tin sheets of misprinted bottle caps and hand paintedin a variety of patterns.

The "Dancing Girl" that adorns the front of this greeting card is made from scrap tin and wire from telephone lines.

Hand carved from beautiful marbled olivewood with handles of designed bone. Each handle pattern is unique.

Handmade bracelets in a variety of patterns and colors.