One of the largest co-operative groups in Kenya, formed as a direct result of the new procedures of direct payment and corruption avoidance implemented by JAMBOHUT. JAMBOHUT pays 90% of the cost price direct to the weavers and 10% to the co-operative for its running costs. JAMBOHUT then adds a further 10% for community projects.

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Let me introduce Jomo. The proudest man I have ever met. Tall, muscular and rangy, this Masaai warrior always dresses in a red, almost tartan, wrap around robe, multicoloured neck beads and has huge holes in his ear lobes, so much so that he can, and does, take the bottom of his ear and loop it over the top. Its bizarre to look at, but how proud of it he is.

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Kenyan born Mary, one of eleven children to God fearing parents, is now about 55, Mary’s not too sure, was more than happy when Independence from British Colonial rule came along. Her two guiding lights throughout her life were that she was taught that freedom was all important and fearing of God a sure way to enter the pearly gates of heaven when she was called. She recalls the day when Independence was declared and everyone celebrated the new dawning of a new country. All would be rosy now, they were in charge of their own destiny.

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Dankan, a small man aged 38 or as near to that as he can remember, was born in the ghetto slums of Nairobi. Being from the Kamba tribe, he is a proud man. He married young and still lives with his wife and four children in their two roomed homemade corrugated tin shanti. Its hot, dusty and smelly, but its home.

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Isaac was born one of five brothers, not the eldest and not the youngest. As with many children born in the 1970’s in Kenya, his father had to choose which child he could afford to send to school and which he couldn’t. It was Isaac’s lot than he had to miss out.

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Anthony Wanderis, lives on the border of the Aberdare National Park, Kenya, often called the lungs of Nairobi by those in the know, due to its massive, ancient and diverse forest. It certainly supplies most of the water that is consumed in that sprawling capital city and soaks up the massive pollution generated.

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In the 1960’s, James’s father first planted some 400 coffee trees of the Scottish Mission variety on his one acre plot in the mist shrouded hills south of Mount Kenya. After his father’s passing, the main plot was sub-divided into three equal size farms for James , his two brothers and their families. The ground is fertile and the rains, which come twice a year, are normally just at the right time to provide essential water for the trees. Today James has 130 trees which yield about 300kg of coffee cherry per year.

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