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There's something that often goes unsaid on International Day of the Girl: One of the most powerful ways to transform a girl's life is by empowering her mother.

 

Your sisal basket has traveled a long way, and it may need a little TLC every now and then. Here's how we recommend you care for your handmade basket from Kenya. 

Why did we start Zawadisha? Well, poverty is sexist.

Most people's idea of Kenya involves the predictable—safari vans clustered around a sleeping lion while tourists snap the same photos everyone else has. But Kenya has a side to it that most tourists never experience.

Little did our founder Jen Gurecki know that pivoting to retail would lead her down a path from desperate non-profit director to "The Basket Lady" at local farmers' markets, while simultaneously drawing her into global trade politics.

When women and their children are cared for, the world is a better place: economies are stronger, nations are more stable, and communities thrive. But the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) threatens that.