A self sustaining cottage industry survives among the hardships

• Eco Africa Social Ventures is a U.S. based Non Profit corporation. Our mission is, through funding, to uplift the daily lives of artists, crafting artisans and their families in Zimbabwe who are struggling under extreme hardships owing to the economic catastrophe that has overtaken their country. For women life is particularly bleak. With HIV/AIDS out of control and water supplies contaminated, average life expectancy for them is now 34 years.

• Through crafts training, the artists and artisans who are part of Eco Africa’s crafting communities are empowered with income producing skills.

  The focus of Eco Africa Social Ventures (EASV) is to raise funds for essential quality-of-life upliftment projects so the artists and artisans can, in spite of the challenges, remain stable and continue to earn income from the work they love.

• “I am Rosina.
  
  I am a paper-crafter.
  
  Paper-crafting enables me to take care of my family ”