The Afrikado Dream: social impact

We work together with Minalyn Nicklin of Life Beads in Naivasha, Kenya, an area nearby Nairobi. Please see the interview on YouTube on this page.

Minalyn started already many years ago with volunteer work and created an atelier (workshop) where youngsters, street children and women with a difficult background are being helped by getting their lives back together through education and work.

This makes them more independent and gives them the possibility to develop their talents, make an own living and motivate others to do so as well. This creates a domino effect. Over 100 people are helped through this programme in the past years, which is possible by the income made by selling the products made in the workshop.

The products with the Afrikado brand are sold via Xpol: mostly in combination with flower bouquets the products are sold in several supermarket chains throughout Europe.

So by buying Afrikado products you help many others.

[Click on YouTube to see interview]

The programmes that help changing lives

When starting in the workshop, there are educational programmes: streetchildren and youngsters receive a scholarship. The educations are meant for professions in the practical and future proof fields. Such as electricians studies and carpentry studies.

Women are given scholarships for several studies, with the goal te get a degree.

After the studies many have jobs or start their own business, such as in the cooking or culinary field, or opening a carpentry shop.