In Kenya's Amboseli, conservation efforts are increasingly looking beyond wildlife protection alone. Here, construction has begun on a traditional beadwork production and training center intended to economically empower local Maasai women.#Amboseli #Beadwork
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In Kenya's Amboseli, conservation efforts are increasingly looking beyond wildlife protection alone.
Construction has begun on a traditional beadwork production and training center intended to economically empower local Maasai women.
SOUNDBITE (English): JOHN KOGADA, Community engagement director, The International Fund for Animal Welfare
Today, we are here to launch the establishment of a development hub which will serve as a center to train the local women in value addition, train them on quality improvement, and basically connect them to a web of markets for the beadwork that they are doing. This would enhance their household disposable incomes.
It also basically improves the general welfare of their households. And this will significantly reduce their over-reliance and over-dependence on the natural resources, the land. And, subsequently, you know, this would lead to the ecosystem thriving and, you know, the habitat improving.
