1 How can I order products?
We do not have a facility on this website to make direct orders or payments, as we are still a very small project.
However if you have looked through the catalogue and decided on an order, then please email this to us - amangwezulucrafts@hotmail.co.uk. Please include the following in your email:
1 The item requested i.e. necklace, choker, bracelet.
2 The catalogue no. and design name.
3 Any description of the colour/s that you require the item to be made in.
4 The specific length of the item. Please ensure you describe if the length given is that of your wrist or neck, or the length that you require the piece of jewellery and whether that includes the ball and 2 loops or not.
5 The price of the item quoted from the relevant catalogue to the country that you are based in.
6 Your full postal address.
7 date that you would need the item/s for.
We cannot be held responsible for posting out items of jewellery that are not the right length if we are not given enough information.
Unfortunately we are not able to ensure we can get the items to you in a fixed period of time, however we will do our best to meet any deadlines given to us. Rushing the women to make the orders usually ends with the product not being very good quality and we are not prepared to jeopardise this, as we want to maintain a good reputation for quality jewellery. So please be patient with us.
Then we will contact you to confirm we have received the order and to clarify any information we need. Then to ask you to post the total payment to an address in your country of residence.
At present as we are such a small project money has to go through personal accounts – but we plan to register as a charity in each country as we know we have built up enough custom and business there to make it worthwhile and viable – so that the profits gained are not used on business efforts abroad, but returned to the women who need it.
2 How can I help this project?
Ordering items from us will support the project in providing more work for the Zulu women, and any profits made will be returned to the local community that the women are from.
Come and visit us – come out and see how the project runs and meet the women involved. Hear their stories, watch them work, and if you are a beader yourself then offer them training or advice in improving the quality of their work, and learn some new skills and techniques yourself. Neither Barbara or Roz are trained at all in the crafts and are not able to offer any crafting advice/tips to the women!
Ideas for marketing the crafts. If you have the time to man a stall at craft fairs on a voluntary basis, or you know of shops who would be keen to stock some of the items, please contact us.
Volunteers to look into registering as a charity or as a fair trade project in each of the countries listed, and in how we coordinate all the funds from orders to return to the Zulu women effectively.
We do not have a facility on this website to make direct orders or payments, as we are still a very small project.
However if you have looked through the catalogue and decided on an order, then please email this to us – amangwezulucrafts@hotmail.co.uk.
3 How can I help this project?
Currently we have not been in a financially stable position to put any profits back into the community, other than the fair labour prices we give each of the beaders to use themselves.
However since 2006 a growing UK and USA market has seen a vast increase in the number of orders and therefore the beginnings of available profits to begin to carefully decide on where it is best spent. These next few months will be dedicated to deciding among the women how we use this profit!
So watch the space, and we will keep you updated.
Please download the catalogue based on where you live
Lungiles's Cards - see a variety of handmade cards which is a seperate business to AZC but run in conjunction. Read more about it by downloading the information below
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