Thursday, April 17, 2008

Ndem Maam Samba

"...Ndem Maam Samba, a seventeen-year-old company founded by Ndem’s spiritual leader, Babacar Mbow, is situated in the arid landscape of the Baol region, 75 miles outside of Dakar. The community employs 365 people and is focused on creating clothing and home décor from ancient African weaving and dyeing techniques married with contemporary tailoring...",Aid to Artisans.
For further coverage see BBC article

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Rassol Diop said...

Our government continues to deal with serious challenges but am convinced this Ndem approach is a practical alternative which can overcome to a large extend those issues.Basically I am really excited to see people with a full commitment of trying to make things better not only of the purpose of improving the social living, but also lessening the gag between well developed and third world countries.
Rassol Diop