What can we make for you?
The Effect of Empowering
120 Million into a workforce
Micro Producers
What can we sell for you?
The Power of a linked sales network.
Micro Distributors
Make a Link
You invest in us. We invest in each other. Social Enterprise in action
Micro Investors
empowering work, life changing expeirence and life long friends.
Craft Link Travel
How to make a Handbag
out of five
plastic bags
Craft Link brand operatons expands into Asia linking with SEHBO, Sustainable Environmental Himalayan Business Opportunities.
Executive Team
Work Force
Services
Craft Link Nepal
Himalayan management
Himalayan co-operative
CONTACT US
If you require products to be made, Craft Link can provide a unique service providing and managing dependable work forces and overseeing product quality and delivery. Please contact us with your needs or ideas.
VISIT
CRAFT LINK
WHOLE SALE
OUTLET
Product Sourcing
Micro Energy Solution Client
First you talk to us
because you are a company with a fantastic product. You think it is giving an answer for bringing people out of poverty and will create profits. By establishing a work plan, pilot training and sales program with thousands of Craft Link field distributers we will find out how good your product really is. If we like it we will do everything we can to use your product and sell it through our cooperative groups.
Examples of micro distribution
Proctor and Gamble with a 10c per family per day water purifying sachet. CocoCola seeking ways to engage distributors in rural villages. A mobile carrier wiith a great new phone and educational ap. A Nutritional super meal company committed to combat malnutrition. Paul Mitchell who doesn't have offical distribution in Kenya.
You are you, who ever you are, with a cost of goods, projected whole sale landed price and retail
We deliver access to:
Tough Stuff contracts
Craft Link as sales and marketing agent to local distributors
( see full article )
Tough Stuff is a Tech Award Laureate in 2010
recognizing humanitarian technical solutions in facing critical issues around our planet and rewarding solutions.
hannah rift flip flops
Pink
€0
hannah rift. flip flops
Orange
Whites
recycled flip flops
recylced flip flop
sandals dark blue
Multi Colour
Blues
Leather Belts
life bouy range, pink, white and multicolour
Tribe range
Flower Range
multicolured bag
Sisal weave
multicolour red bag
Sisal
blue open weave
Salad Untensils
Kitchen
Salad Utensils
Kitchen products made by Craft Link wood carvers
Salad Bowl
Wood - Nut Serving Bowl
Obama Kenya USA Bracelet
The Obama Bracelet in red white and blue celebrates the hope of Kenyan women for their native son and also the inspiration for school children across the country
€10
Chelsea champions bracelet
Kenya loves soccer! and what an unique gift to give anyone living in Chelsea ,New York or London
Investing
Social Lender
Are you a designer or high street label looking for a skilled accredited fair trade workforce to weave, bead, loom, sow, carve, or crop? Are you a restaurant or hotel? Craft Link's thousands of artisans are waiting to deliver to your specs and prototypes.
There are plenty of investment opportunities in Craft Link as we expand our business from an initial centre in Nairobi. Can you help fund sustainability factories, agricultural programs, health clinics, schools or eco homes and be a part of joint-venture building Akasha Villages containing Craft Link Trade Centres?
Be a social enterpreneur and make a loan to an artisan, so they can join a Craft Link co-operative group. You wll be linked to your own social micro entrepreneur and change a whole family's life for only 100 euros.
How is Micro Credit
giving hope, belief
and a future
to tens of millions?
Partnership
Akasha
Equity Bank
Craft Link
Attend
Microcredit
Summit
Spain 2011
How can I Link?
You can be a Link Investor choosing to invest a loan of 100 euros to an individual Artisan borrower or you can gather your friends and collegues providing 1,500 euros to a Co-operative of 15, to which you have naming rights to the group.
Craft Link disperses loans managed by Akasha and Equity Bank, uploads profiles and then links individual investors to their micro social entrepreneur borrowers.
Craft Link act as field agent and product outlet support centre to entreprenuers and provides borrower reporting.
Entrepreneur repays the loan which can be returned or reallocated by Investor. Interest payments are retained by Craft Link for administration and services costs.
Entrepreneurs
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Lenders
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About
A huge movemement that unleashes hope
Microcredit is the extension of small loans and other financial services (such as savings accounts) to the very poor. This allows them to pursue entrepreneurial projects that generate extra income, thus helping them to better provide for themselves and their families.
Why give Microloans to very poor people for self employment endevors?
In many developing countries, the self employed comprise more than 50% of the labor force. Access to small amounts of credit at reasonable interest rates - instead of the exorbitant ones often charged by traditional moneylenders - allows poor people to move from initial, perhaps tiny, income-generating activities to smalll microenterprises. In most cases, microcredit programs offer a combination of services and resources to their clients including savings faciilities, trainng, networking, and peer support.
In this way, microcredit allows families to work to end their poverty - with dignitiy. Microcredit programs around the world, using a variety of models, have shown that poor people achieve strong repayment records - often higher than those of conventional borrowers. Repayment rates are high because, through a system of peer support and pressure used in many microcredit models, borrowers are responsible for each other's success and ensure that every member of their group is able to pay back their loans.
Patnership
Akasha Fund
About Us
Susan Maina
Charlie Gay
The agenda for Africa is indeed very simple. We need to launch each and every African country on a path to sustainable development and on the road from poverty to prosperity
Dr. Bingu wa Mutharika, President of Malawi and Chairman of The African Council
Who to lend to?
Currently you have the opportunity to be a lender to micro social entrepreneurs operating in the artisan co-operatives of the Kibera Integrated Networkand also within the Maasai rural groups.
Please view Co-operatives for full profiles and then make your selection below.
Maasai Beader LINK Loan
By making this loan of £100, you will be LINKed to your own Maasai entrepreneur in rural Kenya or with a Kibera woman in the largest sub Sahara slum, in Nairobi. Your visit will be welcomed.
€100
LINK loan: Kibera Slum
Make a LINK loan in Kibera, Africa's largest slum with over 1.5 million.
Kibera Group Link Loan
Liink yourself, 15 friends or your company with a Group Loan to 15 women. This will give you naming rights for the enterprise circle. We welcome your visit and Craft Link will help with arrangements.
€1500
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