Kazuri, which means “small and beautiful” in Swahili, produces handmade ceramic beads and pottery in a factory located on what used to be Karen Blixen’s coffee plantation on the outskirts of Nairobi. The workshop employs Kenyan women — mostly single mothers abandoned by their husbands or widowed by AIDS who had trouble finding jobs. Now more than 400 people work there, producing fair trade beads and tableware for customers in 30 countries around the world.

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