Profile
Trinity Jewellery is a small business that sells its products locally, in the North America and Europe. The small business enterprise was started in April 1984 by 3 young members born in Mathare Valley, one of the oldest and largest slums in Nairobi, Kenya. The founders had gone through an artisan training for jewellery production offered earlier by the National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK).

The aim and objective of Trinity was to create a decent and a more reliable way of earning a living for the slum people and mainly for the youths, whom due to hopelessness, turned into delinquency and alcoholism.

Mission and Vision of Trinity Jewellery is to provide a skillful and decent way of earning a living for poor and marginalized People from the Urban Slums in form of Training and employment.

Artisans at Trinity are employed and trained on the job. Other producer partners in the slums find great hope in Trinity. Orders are given to them to supply raw materials and also for production purposes. For jewellery, a 50% advance payment is made on all orders to assist them with production cost. The balance is paid after the goods are delivered.

Kenya has 42 different ethnic groups. All of these have distinct traditions and customs which are an important part of their lives. The main groups are divided into three different language speaking groups: Bantu, Nilotic, and Cushtic.

Each of these groups has jewellery which is traditionally worn by their members. Each tribe uses different raw materials to make their jewellery. Examples of the different materials used include brass, aluminum, bone, seeds, reeds, glass beads and wood. All of these cultural influences are used to produce very distinctive African jewellery which is based on local traditions. The workers at Trinity look at some of the examples from different tribes, use traditional raw materials and put them together to create new jewellery. They then look at a sample, evaluate it, and decide how it should be changed. Trinity uses these raw materials in unique combinations to create new designs.

Reducing poverty through training and employment of the poor, in addition to finding market for their jewelry is trinity’s endeavor to see to the success of the organization.