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Kenana Knitters started in 1998, the primary object being to help rural women find some much needed form of income utilizing their spinning and knitting skills. The group buys homespun wool produced locally, and then knits it into toys, bed-covers, jerseys, socks, scarves, hats and other fashion and sport accessories.
The wool comes naturally in cream, browns and grays. The colors are obtained from dying the wool with traditional plants, propagated and grown in Kenana's garden so as not to impact adversely on the environment.
Kenana Knitters group enables its workers to directly benefit from their efforts. Knitting is ideal, it requires minimal equipment, can be done in snatches when time permits. When the rains come and the family crops and vegetables need tending not much knitting gets done, but in times of drought and crop failure, when the family garden is bare of supplementary vegetables, money can now be earned to purchase the necessities of life.
Kenana Knitters has made the Meerkat and Hippo exclusively for Imara Exchange.
Knitters at the product design table
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Dyeing the wool
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Drying the wool
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Carol finishing her projects
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Agnes, 16 years old
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