Inclusive Business: Providing Opportunities to our Tanzanian Partners
Swahili Coast is a business. Like many small business owners, we want to harness the power of the market to improve the lives of people we love--although in our case, the people we love are not just our family and friends here at home, they are also our (very) extended family and friends in Tanzania. While profits are important, doing right by the people we work with is not up for compromise. We aren't just calling in orders to a factory overseas--we work hand-in-hand with the artisans at our workshop, and we are serious about our responsibility to these artisans. (I mean, look how awesome these people are. I have no idea why anyone wouldn't want to be friends with...