Buy Samburu this weekend!

What I mean is:

This weekend, Dec. 12 & 13th, the Kenya Aid and Relief Effort (KARE: that’s me and others) are selling goods that the Samburu people made and asked us to sell for them. KARE and the Samburu people’s good friend and ally, Cultural Survival, offered us table space at their annual Cultural Survival Holiday Bazaar. We’ll have beaded bracelets and necklaces, carved spoons and bowls, beaded belts and woven baskets, as well as museum-quality Samburu pieces such as women’s wide, beaded neckbands, warriors’ clubs and other cultural pieces. All the proceeds will go to Samburu famine relief and legal funds.

“Where’s that going to be and can I get there?” I’m glad you asked. Just like the Cambridge Carnival we sold Samburu goods at this past September, the Bazaar is in Cambridge, Massachusetts (in the US). Specifically, we’ll be at:

Harvard University
Center For Government and International Studies Building-South
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA.
10am to 6pm
* FREE Parking Available on 7 Felton St., Cambridge, MA. 02138* 

Here’s a link to Cultural Survival for more information:  http://www.culturalsurvival.org/bazaar/cultural-survival-bazaar

If you follow the link, right next to the bazaar date & location details is a picture KARE gave to Cultural Survival of a weeping Samburu woman and the sentence “Should a government be able to kill women and children just to make room for an oil well?”

Cultural Survival is hard at work mounting a legal campaign charging Crimes against Humanity due to the thefts, rapes, and murders of Samburu. KARE’s table will be right next to Cultural Survival’s Membership Table at the bazaar. Please become a Cultural Survival member and/or donate to them. KARE is helping them raise funds for the Samburu legal campaign too.