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SHOP
ST MARTIN Curio Shop
 Since St. Martin has been growing
fast for the last couple of years and activities have been expanded.
St. Martin started income generating activities in order to become a
more sustainable organization. One of the main income
generating projects
St. Martin started was the Saint Martin Curio shop.
The profit gained from the shop will be used directly to support the
six community programme's.
The curio shop has all sorts of
handicrafts ranging from cards, baskets, bags, woodcarvings, jewellery,
batiks, and leatherwork among other crafts. These products are suitable
for residents, visitors and other trading organisations.
 The
items in the shop are selected in a way that St. Martin can support other
non-profit
organisations and local artists. The leather items are purchased from
St. Martins own leather workshop, 'The Marleen Project'. The people
working in this workshop are selected from the six community programme's of Saint Martin: the
disabled, rehabilitated streetchildren, victims of
domestic violence and people living with HIV/AIDS. They produce items
for the shop and they work on
demand when trading organisations and non-profit organisations want to
surprise their
personal with a memorable gift.
The Marleen Project
The leather workshop was founded
in honour of Marleen Bannink. Marleen came to Kenya in February 2002.
The 19-year-old lady from the Netherlands had volunteered under The
Missionary Youth Programme, which sends young people to spread the
gospel through service. Marleen was attached to the Street Children
Programme where she was very popular due to her humility and love for
the children she worked with. But as fate would have it, Marleen passed
away on 28th of May 2002 after being run over by a speeding lorry.
Some products:
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