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Curating African Maker Stories, Traditions and Handmade Products.

📍 Tanzania 🇹🇿 Umanda I learnt how to paint on my own and I am proud of a accomplishments. #TheicreateProject #makersofafrica

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Tanzania 🇹🇿

Umanda 

I learnt how to paint on my own and I am proud of a accomplishments. 

#TheicreateProject 
#makersofafrica
icreateproject's tweet image. 📍

Tanzania 🇹🇿

Umanda 

I learnt how to paint on my own and I am proud of a accomplishments. 

#TheicreateProject 
#makersofafrica

“We simply can't underestimate the positive impact of your consumer choices for our community and to our local economy, particularly at the grassroots level.” #MakersofAfrica #TheicreateProject

icreateproject's tweet image. “We simply can't underestimate the positive impact of your consumer choices for our community and to our local economy, particularly at the grassroots level.”

#MakersofAfrica 
#TheicreateProject

“When you visit a country, visit the forgotten artisans of the narrow streets because they are the ones who made that country. Do this, not to honour them, but to honour yourself. #TheicreateProject #MakersofAfrica

icreateproject's tweet image. “When you visit a country, visit the forgotten artisans of the narrow streets because they are the ones who made that country.

Do this, not to honour them, but to honour yourself. 

#TheicreateProject 
#MakersofAfrica

“If we craft them they will buy them.” #MakersofAfrica #TheicreateProject

icreateproject's tweet image. “If we craft them they will buy them.”

#MakersofAfrica 
#TheicreateProject

“Craft is passionately creating something with your hands.” #MakersofAfrica #TheicreateProject


“It's in your hands to make the world a better place.” #MakersofAfrica #TheicreateProject

icreateproject's tweet image. “It's in your hands to make the world a better place.”

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#TheicreateProject

We don’t really have anything to say, this basket looked cute and we wanted y’all to see. 😏 #MakersofAfrica #TheicreateProject

icreateproject's tweet image. We don’t really have anything to say, this basket looked cute and we wanted y’all to see. 

😏

#MakersofAfrica
#TheicreateProject

A fully #traceable handmade product and a demonstrated ethical #artisanal business need to be given value with premium prices. #TheicreateProject #MakersofUganda

icreateproject's tweet image. A fully #traceable handmade product and a demonstrated ethical #artisanal business need to be given value with premium prices.

#TheicreateProject 
#MakersofUganda

Legacy for us is centered around how many lives we can impact, more so than how many products we can sell.” “It’s the purpose that I feel we’ve been called here to do.” #TheicreateProject

icreateproject's tweet image. Legacy for us is centered around how many lives we can impact, more so than how many products we can sell.”

“It’s the purpose that I feel we’ve been called here to do.”

#TheicreateProject

“Laughter, respect, the security of productive work, a sense of belonging, dignity these are thing that matter the most to our experience as human beings” #TheicreateProject #MakersofUganda

icreateproject's tweet image. “Laughter, respect, the security of productive work, a sense of belonging, dignity these are thing that matter the most to our experience as human beings”

#TheicreateProject
#MakersofUganda

📍 FortPortal “Imagine the joy that comes from earning enough money to experience a level of self reliance you’ve never had before.” #MakersofUganda #TheicreateProject

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“Imagine the joy that comes from earning enough money to experience a level of self reliance you’ve never had before.”

#MakersofUganda 
#TheicreateProject

“There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands.” #TheicreateProject #MakersofUganda

icreateproject's tweet image. “There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands.”

#TheicreateProject 
#MakersofUganda

📍Fort Portal Do you know why I’m laughing so hard? The proceeds from my basket weaving helped my partner and I purchase the motorcycle behind us. We are working to buy a second one. #TheicreateProject #MakersofUganda

icreateproject's tweet image. 📍Fort Portal

Do you know why I’m laughing so hard? 

The proceeds from my basket weaving helped my partner and I purchase the motorcycle behind us. 
We are working to buy a second one. 

#TheicreateProject 
#MakersofUganda

Artisans and Makers craft beautiful products using heritage skills like beading, hand-dye, and basketry. These skills are on display in our collections and each piece is a testament to the resilience and determination of the artisans that make them. #TheicreateProject

icreateproject's tweet image. Artisans and Makers craft beautiful products using heritage skills like beading, hand-dye, and basketry. 

These skills are on display in our collections and each piece is a testament to the resilience and determination of the artisans that make them. 

#TheicreateProject

“To see the inherent dignity in this group of young women is to see their generosity, their strength. To expand that dignity is to increase the control they have over their lives. #TheicreateProject #MakersofUganda

icreateproject's tweet image. “To see the inherent dignity in this group of young women is to see their generosity, their strength. 

To expand that dignity is to increase the control they have over their lives.

#TheicreateProject 
#MakersofUganda

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“To all Creative Entrepreneurs, Past, Present, Future, Aspiring, and Imaginary.” The shocking confession of how I managed to to make it through the several iterations of @icreateproject. (Don’t judge )🥹 theicreateproject.com/blog/to-all-cr…


📍Mukono “I simply love what I do, it gives me great joy.” #MakersofUganda #TheicreateProject

icreateproject's tweet image. 📍Mukono

“I simply love what I do, it gives me great joy.” 

#MakersofUganda
#TheicreateProject

A kiondo is a handwoven bag made from indigenous vegetable twine with leather trimmings. It is indigenous to the Taita, Kikuyu and Kamba tribes of Kenya “Everything we curate is handcrafted by real people making products that bring meaning and connection to your home.”

icreateproject's tweet image. A kiondo is a handwoven bag made from indigenous vegetable twine with leather trimmings. It is indigenous to the Taita, Kikuyu and Kamba tribes of Kenya

“Everything we curate is handcrafted by real people making products that bring meaning and connection to your home.”

Dearly Beloved, We are all gathered here today to get through this thing called Building a Creative Business. theicreateproject.com/blog/dearly-be…


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