2020-08-13 13:56
In Zambia, all public schools below college level have been canceled during the pandemic and we don’t know when they will resume. For our three high school students, Lillian, Patrick a… Read More
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AACDP supports women and children in Zambia with African craft sales
2020-07-01 14:51
I met Pauline in 2005 when I first visited the Mama Bakhita Cheshire Home in Livingstone, Zambia, a few miles from Victoria Falls. She was a part of social group of mothers whose child… Read More
2020-06-29 11:25
The ripple of the pandemic has forced the Mama Bakhita Center for Disabled Children in Livingstone, Zambia to shut its doors. For the 24 children who attend it means they can no longer get e… Read More
2020-05-23 19:52
M’Pekala is the name that the 10 women have given to their economic initiative project making sisal bags. It refers to the fact that they are able to add to the prosperity of their com… Read More
2020-03-11 12:13
Traveling to Livingstone, Zambia is a long, complicated and difficult trip, but the welcome that always awaits us makes up for everything. The warm smile and big hug from… Read More
2020-02-10 17:20
Young people at the Mama Bakhita Cheshire Home for children with disabilities can exercise their minds and muscles every week, instead of a few weeks a year. For many years I brought Tempra… Read More
2019-12-23 16:17
I saw the people of the village of Jack Mwanapapa watch the dry season stretch into months without rain, and the Nansazu river, their source of water, slowly dwindle and then disappear, alon… Read More
2019-12-10 16:03
Every year I go to Zambia and stay at the Mama Bakhita Home for children with disabilities. For three weeks I set up free-style, non-representational painting for all ages. But the children… Read More
2018-11-17 02:43
AACDP, PeaceQuilts, The Invisible World, Maasai Partners and Olive Branch Fair Trade are at 30 Main Street, Vineyard Haven, the corner of Spring and Main. We’re open every day until Ch… Read More
2018-09-19 21:19
Linda has wanted to be a doctor since she was five years old, which is when I met her. She grew up in Zambia during a time when HIV/AIDS was a silent predator about which no one spoke. A who… Read More
2018-08-23 17:06
Thirty-five Zambezi Dolls found new homes with thirty-five middle schoolers who attend LA Promise Charter School. This is a socially conscious public school that strives to “rad… Read More
2018-05-27 21:56
Zambezi Dolls were born when it became very clear that there are not enough dolls of color in the world. It is also true that we do not need more plastic polluting our environment, so these… Read More
2018-05-23 18:35
Unprogressive societies hold women down, says Betty Abah, the Joan of Arc for Nigerian girls and women. Betty Abah is (and I quote from the Daily Telegraph Newspaper in Nigeria) ” an a… Read More
2018-05-04 14:50
Many of you have already contributed to our on-line campaign to raise money to finish the Zambezi doll makers website. We still have a ways to go and difficult work ahead so we ask that you… Read More
2018-04-28 15:41
We have put all of our time and energy into getting the Zambezi Doll on-line store up and running. When we ran into snags with the credit card payment company and marketing challenges, I did… Read More
2018-04-19 17:01
After eight years working on this project, the Zambezi doll makers of Livingstone, Zambia have established the Zambezi Doll Cooperative, their own independent, women-owned non profit designe… Read More
2018-03-18 09:04
The Organizing Principle Falls into my Lap the Day Before I Leave for Zambia Piece #1 The Book and Why Do We Exist?(As a Business) After eight years of slowly developing a product and a way… Read More
2018-03-16 10:43
Piece #2 Chembo Sydney’s long time friend, Chembo Muwaya had all of these skills and was already interested in the project. But she lived In Ndola, a six or seven hour busride away. I… Read More
2018-03-15 10:52
Piece #3 The Doll Challenge So we set them a challenge: Could they produce ten perfect dolls in one day? The women were so up for it. They set to work immediately, Magdalene cutting o… Read More
2018-03-14 11:02
Piece #4 A Place of Our Own The doll makers have been working in the hydrotherapy room at the Mama Bakhita Cheshire Home, a facility that was financed by an Irish organization called T… Read More
2018-01-05 16:46
I am leaving for Zambia in two weeks and am looking for doll making supplies to take with me: —Small sharp scissors (embroidery scissors?) –Large sharp scissors —seam rippe… Read More
2017-12-20 17:29
Open every day till Christmas 10 to 2 or by appointment 508 560 2620 20 Road to Great Neck, West Tisbury Wondering where we are this holiday season? I have set up a store in my basement and… Read More
2017-07-14 19:50
On sale every Monday at the Grange Hall, 10 to 5, are these Maasai beaded bowls along with many other beaded items which raise money for Maasai women struggling with a hostile government in… Read More
2017-07-06 23:05
At our first World Market Monday sale we ended with a fundraising event where our special guest Sr. Immaculata Mulyei described her women’s income initiative in Secute, Zambia. Sh… Read More
2017-05-17 02:30
Dorothy writes: “Francis was born on 20th May 2007. The mother was a commercial sex worker. I tried very hard to bring her around but all failed. After she gave birth to francis, she w… Read More
2017-05-15 02:59
Happy Mother’s Day to one of the bravest mothers I know, Dorothy Bwalya. Here is Shepherd, the child of a younger brother who died four years ago. When his mother remarried, she left t… Read More
2017-05-14 03:54
Here is Emmanuel’s story as written by Dorothy. “Emmanuel, who is commonly known as Santiago Mwila, is 9 years old. After the death of both parents, he was taken by my sis… Read More
2017-05-12 01:30
Part 4 of the Woman with 14 Orphans: Michael Bwalya “Michael Bwalya was born in 2011 in the Copperbelt. His mother was a primary school teacher and was my young sister. The father dese… Read More
2017-05-06 22:04
You have to understand that working within the Catholic Church in Zambia is a safe and relatively high status position for a woman. She is guaranteed food and lodging and education. It is li… Read More
2017-05-06 02:24
The Story of the Woman with 14 Orphans Dorothy Bwalya was a Franciscan Sister in Zambia for 18 years. Internal politics drove her away and when she quit, her family disowned and shunned her… Read More
2017-03-16 22:24
I wrote a bit about Dorothy Bwayla a few posts ago….the Zambian teacher who has taken in 14 orphans over the years, though she lives in a one room house on a small salary. Please help… Read More
2017-03-10 12:24
These are the women of the God Given Gift Group. They are mothers and grandmothers of disabled children who attend the Mama Bakhita Cheshire Center in Livingstone, Zambia. In 2011 I spent th… Read More
2016-06-13 18:34
Sr. Immaculata, founder of the Mpekala Project which trains rural Zambian women in the growing and economic uses of sisal, has documented the initial phase of the planting some sis… Read More
2016-04-18 16:29
Tuscan Tour Information Meeting and African Craft Sale Saturday, May 14, 10:00am My house: 20 Road to Great Neck, WT 508 693 4059 I will be showing slides and discussing three different tour… Read More
2016-04-18 12:47
Helping create jobs for women in Zambia is essential to our mission. The “God Given Gift Club” is a group of fifteen mothers with children at the Mama Bakhita Cheshire… Read More
2016-03-04 13:15
My name is Tina Manda, born in Livingstone, Zambia, near the great Victoria Falls. I am 28 years old and come from a hardworking family of five. My mother is a single parent, and thou… Read More
2016-02-24 01:50
I used to work for an Indian woman in her shop. She sold chitenge and sewing supplies and other things. But she was very hard to work for because she did not trust anyone, and if you stood f… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
AACDP has a cute little store again this year in Edgartown, across form Town Hall, thanks to Barbara Courtney. Below is a sampling of the new Kikoy cloth we have. Please stop by and see all… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
On Tuesday, July 2, at 7pm Spindrift Marionettes will be presenting an original musical puppet show of Cupid and Psyche, a 2000 year-old tale of love, jealousy, betrayal and courage. For peo… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The Mama Bakhita Center started in 1996 as a home with fifteen children with different physical and mental disabilities. Today the Center has 147 registered children. Their services include… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
A few months ago, right before Christmas, I was contacted by a young man who runs an orphanage in Kigali, Rwanda, saying that he had no funds left and was looking anywhere he could thi… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
You can go all the way up to the high hilltop village of Fiesole on the bus for one euro. One euro to sail out of town, up where the air smells like bay leaves and the city spreads out below… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
This might be the best tour of Florence you will ever find. Jane Norton, Anusara teacher extraordinaire, will be joining us. Jane is the yoga teacher who relieved me from yearly e… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I came across this travel article by Jonathon Engels while searching the travel related websites for inspiration for promoting my own tours. I saw that my tours in Florence and Fiesole also… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
In 2007, Sydney Mwamba wrote and asked me to sponsor him in a business diploma program. His aunt makes crafts for me, so I asked her if Sydney was a good bet. She replied enthusiastically &l&hell…Read More
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