Amani ya Juu

Lucy and Jerita go to Liberia

[caption id="attachment_2793" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Lucy and Jerita at Amani ya Juu's Kenya center[/caption] Meet Lucy and Jerita, two women from Amani ya Juu's Kenya center who are maki...

Judy

[caption id="attachment_350" align="aligncenter" width="200"] Judy[/caption] Judy is a Kenyan woman who came to Amani ya Juu in 2001 at the end of painful recovery process from a stroke that affec...

What is freedom?

Three Amani women share their thoughts on freedom with their USA friends. Margaret "I feel blessed to be able to express myself in the area of spiritual life. Also, I feel blessed that I’m able...

Meet Marcelline

    Marcelline with the Robertsport Clutch $28 Marcelline's Story Meet the woman behind the Robertsport Clutch and Monrovia Wristlet "I come from Rwanda and I am a mother of one daughter. I have l...

We Are Asked to Forgive

Beatrice, of Western Kenya, was raised in a polygamous family. She was the 6th child born to her mother, and was bright enough to study in Uganda, where her uncle was a teacher. After the civil war...

Africa in Pictures

This BBC Album posted on March 15th features several fascinatingly unique pictures taken across Africa in the span on a single week. Our favorite is the couch. A man carries a sofa on his motorc...

Letters From Our Children

At Amani ya Juu (Peace from Above), we aren't just sewing peace--we're passing peace down to the next generation. Three times a year, production at our Kenya center shuts down and our focus shifts ...

"Our relationships are our wealth."

This month, we have special news from Amani Kenya’s grateful Country Director, Joyce Muraya: There is an African saying which translates loosely as “our relationships are our wealth." And we at Ama...

[From the Archives] A Day at Amani: Stitching & Jerita

"Over the course of the next few months, we will be sharing stories from Amani's history on the blog. We'll be calling the series, "From the Archives." Different materials will show up, including p...

What is Freedom?

With this week's celebration of Independence Day in the United States, we asked some women at Amani Kenya to reflect on what freedom means to them. They shared with us from their different backgrou...