History

KAZURI

Handmade ceramic jewellery from Kenya.

The word Kazuri is Swahili and means “Small and Beautiful”.

The founder, Lady Susan Wood, was born in a small hut in Africa in 1918. Her parents were missionaries from England. Susan Wood was sent back to England to be educated, but in 1947 she came back to Kenya with her husband, Michael Wood.
Susan and Michael Wood were both visionary people. Michael Wood was founding AMREF, the East African Flying Doctor Service.
In 1975 Lady Susan Wood started, with two local women, a small ceramic workshop in her back garden.
Their house was lying at the foot of Ngong Hill, north of Nairobi, nearby The Karen Blixen Farm.
The women were, as most of them are to day, single mothers, who depend on this work to be able to support them selves and their families.

Today the Kazuri has employed more than 350 women. The workshop is still at the same place, where it started. The women are carefully trained  to make the handmade and hand painted beautiful beads. The clay comes from the Mt Kenya area and many years experience has made the product very beautiful and unique.
Today he jewellery from Kazuri is sold throughout the whole world, and the differnet designs have one thing in common, they make women even more beautiful.

Kazuri is Fair Trade.
The Kazuri workshop has a good working environment and the quality demands of the production are in line with the demands of EU.

In 2001 Mark and Regina Newman bought the Kazuri Company. Their vision was to maintain and develop the workshop in agreement with the philosophy of Lady Susan Wood. The big aim will always be to have the women in focus.

Gro Strømnæss
Distributor in the Nordic countries.

http://www.kazuriscandinavia.com