Amani ya Juu

Journal

At Amani ya Juu, we're so glad you like us. A few weeks ago, we asked our social media fans one question. Why do you like us, anyway? Is it our Fair Trade Feder...

In Honor of Elizabeth Sumwabe

At Amani ya Juu, we aren't just making beautiful products, Amani is impacting beyond production. Amani women are developing themselves through higher education. [caption id="attachment_2811" al...

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...

Lawoi

[caption id="attachment_2783" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Lawoi mentoring young girls from the Amani Girls Club[/caption] Lawoi is a 27-year-old from Lofa County, Liberia. She is married and ...

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...

Meet Laytopoe

Laytopoe is one of four Amani Girls Club leaders and a senior student at ABCU of Yekepa, Liberia. During Liberia’s 15-year civil war, she was unable to attend school. But that hasn’t stopped thi...

The Amani Girls Club

The Amani Girls Club breaks the destructive cycle which hinders a Liberian girl and her success in life. The Amani Girls Club, an initiative of Amani Liberia, is a weekly after school program in ...

A New Place for Amani Uganda

The previous Amani Uganda A month ago, Amani Uganda existed in one room of a strip in the Cerelene district of Gulu. With seven women sewing and four babies playing in a twelve-by-twelve roo...

Raise the Roof, Chattanooga

Three years ago, my husband and I lived in a town in Liberia, West Africa. We were teachers in a small Christian college there and felt God’s blessing on our work. But midway through our two-year ...