The Zanzibar Mabe initiative
I have been working with the University of Rhode Island (my alma mater) Coastal Resources Center on a project I am very excited about. I am also looking for people that find this interesting and would like to get involved. The pearls are very rough and equipment is needed to improve quality.Please feel free to contact me for more information
Women living in a coastal village on the island of Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean have come across an intriguing and innovative way of raising their incomes and business skills through cultivation of iridescent “half-pearls” from oysters along their shore. These captivating, luminescent gems are harvested by the women, who polish and sell them to local residents and tourists, and professional jewelers, who can then set them in striking silver and gold designs. The women of
the Fumba Peninsula, on Menai Bay, have developed a profitable supplemental income that is helping them pull out of the poverty faced by many coastal dwellers on Zanzibar
http://www.pearls.com/news2/pp49/planting_the_seeds.htm
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