Description
These beautiful African Fabric Shopping Bags are made from quality printed cotton fabric, sourced from the markets in Kampala, Uganda. Each bag folds to a 10 cm square size, to easily it in your pocket or handbag. The bags make a wonderful sustainable option to plastic shopping bags, and are a beautiful quality gift.
Bags come in multiple colours. It is not possible to order exact colours, as the bags are made from the fabric available in the market at that time. We will do our best to source colour ranges on request. However, most stockists choose to simple order a mix of the colourful bags.
Size: 45cm x 45cm
Style: Cotton Fabric
AfriBeads shopping bag sare made by a group of 20 women in Kampala, Uganda. The women make the bags to support their families, providing a solid income and the flexible work that they need. The women in Kampala run their own enterprise, making their own decisions together as a collective, working with fair trade principles.
Many millions of people live in extreme poverty in Uganda, Africa, struggling to survive and look after their children. Afribeads has enabled families who were struggling to provide meals for their children, to safely feed their family and send their children to school. By providing access to market for their artisan-made paper beads, Afribeads supports the women as respected suppliers. Afribeads has been working with the same group of women for over 10 years, supporting them as they grow their business and support their families. Every piece of Afribeads sold provides direct support to the women that make them.
Afribeads is a Fair Trader of Australia and all Afribeads products are made following the WFTO 10 Principles of Fair Trade, ensuring that the women making the products are provided with a good income, good working conditions and are supported to build their business and support their family and community.
Afribeads is a trusted wholesale supplier of fair trade ethical homewares and ethical giftware in Australia and is one of the most trusted African fair trade brands in Australia.
