Clarion Call

Maasai women of Amboseli beading with love and passion

The Maasai name represents a graceful, powerful and resolute people and their heritage.

Today, Maasai is used as a brand name that is renowned and celebrated around the world. According to experts, a brand’s value is simply about the extent to which an entity can sell its goods and services at a premium price.

This begs the question — Why are Maasai women, master beaders whose creative work is revered and sold at top dollar worldwide, still unable to make ends meet in 2017? Could it be because their intellectual property has been appropriated by the resourceful, or that they have been taken advantage of by middlemen due to their lack of formal education?

Kazana seeks to address this injustice by giving these exceptionally creative women a platform to showcase their handmade products and by offering them an avenue to receive what is justly and rightly due to them - income that will enable them to adequately support themselves and their families.

Your purchase of a Kazana hummingbird bracelet is an expression of your solid support for their efforts and a statement for your strong stand against human hardship, injustice and exploitation.

We encourage you to invite a friend or two to join the hummingbird movement. Thank you.

~ KAZANA