ONE POSSIBLE FUTURE PROJECT

 


  1. ✦Over 75 products representing 60 artisans

  2. ✦Artisans experience the benefit of maintaining high quality

  3. ✦Provides example of retail gift sto
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  4. ✦Tests product appeal

  5. ✦Showroom for wholesale buyers

  6. ✦Locations:

  7. ✦ADEA Center

  8. ✦Mtwara Airport

  9. ✦Old Boma Hotel

 

ADEA

Gift shops


ADEA Programs



  1. ✦ Introduces new skills

  2. ✦ Experimentation  with new designs for products

  3. ✦ Facilitates creativity

  4. ✦  Financially sponsors artisans

  5. ✦Promotes the sharing of ideas

 








Whistler

Skills Training Workshops


Twice Annually

Maasai Boma Schools

Allowing a culture to evolve;

not deteriorate

Families remain intact

Children can stay at home while perusing studies


Households exposed to education

A child’s studies are brought into the home


Children are able to continue traditional home duties

All members of a Maasai family are needed in running a home and caring for livestock


Eliminates the burden of high boarding school fees


Alleviates necessity to favor one child over another

Boarding school costs are prohibitive


Curriculum allows for schedule flexibility

Family and herding duties may require the interruption of studies


Children can study under a Christian curriculum, as is their parents’ preference

ACE is being used successfully in other East African schools, grounding students in God’s word & learning excellence. The majority of Rombo Maasai are Christians and desire the ACE.


Curriculum can be customized to the Maasai culture

Dress, arts, craft, history, dance, storytelling, etc. will be incorporated into the school program

Boma Schools Rombo, Kenya - click here for more detailsMaasai_School.html
As a follow up to workshops, One-on-One training allows us to monitor
artisans as they establish new work patterns, production consistency, and dependability.  Also, this allows us to focus on personalized design development, and to address the unique challenges an artisan may face (including family struggles, medical issues, and substance abuse).
 

One-on-One Training


Ongoing

1st hour is dedicated to instruction on various subjects related to:

  1. ✦customer relationships & following instructions

  2. ✦production discipline & time management

  3. ✦quality control

  4. ✦accounting, and the like.

2nd hour dedicated to open discussion on any subject of concern (from them and from us). It is a chance to voice concern and brain storm solutions together. Meetings have included guest speakers on the environment, tree planting, HIV/AIDS, the arts and other subject bringing life saving information to a community that is often overlooked. These meetings let us into the minds and hearts of the artisans, and allows us to affectively direct our effort to meet expressed needs from a grass roots level.


Monthly

Training & Open Discussion Forum


Working with jewelry designers Pam Hathaway and Koral Schademan, income generation through jewelry production is being explored to help this community generate income to support the schools and their families using their exceptional bead-working skills.

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The tribes of southeastern Tanzania maintain a rich heritage in the performing arts.  In an effort to preserve
these rich traditions ADEA s launching a Dance and Performing Arts Festival - MAKUYA (from Makonde - Makua and Yao tribes in the region) for August  2008 in Mtwara, Tanzania.  This festival will also serve as a place to showcase traditional craft and cultural activities.
Visit : MaKuyafestvial.blogspot.com http://www.makuyafestiva.blogspot.com

 

MAKUYA Traditional Performing Arts Festival


Our Dream is to design and constructing an ADEA Arts Center to accommodate the increasing number of ADEA participants, and for greater tourist/buyer appeal.  ADEA currently rents a cement block duplex house. It has served us well, but it poorly designed for our purposes and we are growing out of the space.  We would like to design something much more artistically and culturally significant for the artisans to showcase their skills and for greater appeal to visitors. The center will include workshops, a gallery, class rooms, a carving and cultural museum, a natural resource center an outdoor performing space, offices and gift shop.

ADEA Arts Center


Mtwara, Tanzania