Ratanang Beadwork

Originally starting work helping with wedding arrangements, this group of ladies made the decision in 1999 to turn to a more lucrative source of income and so the beadwork project was begun.

Each of the seventeen ladies works from their home while they try and find a suitable venue where they work more effectively and so increase their production of cultural beadwork.  In addition to the beautiful bracelets, necklaces and other items of jewellery that they produce, they also manufacture clay pots made from clay  that they dig themselves by hand from the nearby village of Mogaladi.  They would further like to manufacture leather goods, but need first to find the funding for the purchase of a leather softening machine.