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Gifted hands turn waste paper into jewellery
Jayne-Rose Khavesa (left) with another member of the Amani Women Group work on beads at their workshop at Congo slum in Kawangware, Nairobi. Right: Some of the jewellery the group makes from waste paper. Photos/Diana Ngila
Right at the boundary of Lavington and Kawangware in Nairobi is a small slum known as Congo.
In the non-formal settlement at Kabiro Training Centre, seven women are busy creating jewellery for sale. If their raw material is anything to go by, then, one woman’s trash is another’s treasure.
