Kangemi Dolly Craft Project
This is a project, established in 1989, of men and women located in St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Parish in Kangemi.
About the Dolly Craft Project
Dolly Craft was founded in 1989. The aim was to create jobs for the women of Kangemi slum which is a very poor area outside the city of Nairobi.
The women make dollies of different tribes in Kenya with their national costumes, pop ups (small toys for children) and ornaments used on Christmas trees.
Nowadays, the demand for the dolls have gone down as technology is advancing. There are only 4 women remaining in the project currently and mostly they crotchet cinctures for the priests and sometimes do beadwork.
Dolly Craft Sewing Project
The project was started in 1994 with an aim of designing and making church vestments which were very rare to find in Kenya as almost all of them were being imported.
About the Sewing Project
Initially the project used to make church vestments, African attires, suits, uniforms and many others. Over the years we have had many church item orders hence concentrating with church vestments like chasubles, albs, clerical shirts, surplices, cassocks, habits, altar cloths and covers, mass servers’ clothes etc.
We sell our products locally and internationally. Our participation in making the Pope’s mass vestments when he visited Kenya in 2015 opened to us a wider market.
The project is a source of income to 22 employees, 18 women and 4 men.
There are 5 computerized embroidery machines which help us to make neat clothes and meet the deadlines of our many customers.
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Phone Number - Kangemi Dolly Craft
+254 721 910 758
Location
Kangemi, Nairobi
Email address
kangemidollycraft@gmail.com
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