Have you seen Swahili Sensations pop up in your feed on Facebook or Instagram?
Swahili Sensations is a Social Enterprise based in Australia. They have made it their mission to deliver handmade luxuries to you and your home. Jewellery, baskets, rugs, throws, books, toys, bunting, and lots more - all handmade, and all of amazing quality.
And here’s the best part: 10% of their profits are being donated to us! That means every time you buy something you have automatically contributed to our existence. Isn’t that just amazing?
Why Swahili Sensations?
Nina Hjortlund, who has founded Swahili Sensations says: “Our goal is four-fold. We want to bring handmade luxury to you and your home. Unique and one-of-a-kind items of the best quality that you can’t find anywhere else.
We want to showcase the exquisite handcrafts coming out of East Africa. Giving you an opportunity to see some of the amazing things that otherwise doesn’t make it to the Australian nor international market.
We want to give you the opportunity to support a local artisan for their skilled and talented work. By supporting the makers directly you are providing them with a pathway out of poverty not only for themselves but for their entire families.
And of course, we want to support efficient and effective change through Australia for Cedar Tanzania. That’s why we donate 10% of our profits to them.”
Full disclosure
You may have recognised the name, Nina is also the CEO of Australia for Cedar Tanzania. Isn’t that confusing?
“Being the CEO of Australia for Cedar Tanzania is an amazing job and allows us to see the positive and sustainable change our projects provide. Being a not-for-profit sometimes has it limitations and there are certain things that are harder to do within the concept and framework that provides. That is why I decided to personally create Swahili Sensations. Having a social enterprise opens up for a whole other set of ways we can support people to lift themselves out of poverty - and at the same time provide you with some of the beautiful and amazing thing that are being produced across East Africa.” Nina says.
Handpicked by Nina
Nina personally handpicks each item for Swahili Sensations on her trips. She meets with the artisans in various parts of the region and makes sure each item is of the best quality. On occasion, the artisans will make items exclusively for Swahili Sensations, suited to our valuable customers.
Although Swahili Sensations are an Australia based company they happily ship worldwide.
where to find Swahili Sensations
Swahili Sensations is a fully online shop. You can have look at all the amazing collection of handmade crafts here, or you can follow Swahili Sensations on Facebook or Instagram.