We remove the barriers for rural women to access essential household items like solar lamps, rainwater tanks, chairs, ironsheets, and clean cook stoves. We deliver these items directly to their homes in rural communities, and they pay for them over time.

When women living in poverty have access to high-quality household goods, they see a dramatic increase in the quality of their lives.

Money is spent on school fees for children instead of on kerosene lamps. Women can use the six hours they would have spent walking to a river for water or into the forest for fuel wood on income-generating activities. Children sit at tables and study under the light of solar lamps.

Women’s status in the home is elevated as they are the ones responsible for the dramatic changes that benefit the entire family.

When you purchase a handmade item from Zawadisha, you are not only supporting local artisans across Africa, you are helping us provide more loans for essential household items that radically improve the lives of women and their families.