ABOUT TEMAK ARTS & CRAFTS
Teenage Mothers and Girls Association of Kenya is an organization working to rescue, rehabilitate and provide vocational training to girls and young women.

TEMAK has its centre in Tom Mboya Estate, Kisumu in the Republic of Kenya, where multiple programmes have been initiated to support the destitute since 1992. Our programmes focus on helping solve the problems of HIV/AIDS infected children, their parents - often single teenage girls  - orphans, the poor and the destitute of the community.

WHY IS TEMAK CONCERNED?
School drop out statistics indicate that between 8,000 and 10,000 girls drop out of school in Kenya every year due to pregnancy. Many of the teenage mothers are unemployed with little knowledge on child care.  visible for browsers supporting flash animations

Teenage pregnancy has many repercussions including psychological stress, social alienation, health problems, and further consequences of contracting STD's and AIDS.  Although teenage motherhood is a long-standing problem, it has taken a dramatic and disturbing turn for the worse in the last 10 years, leading to increased child labor, prostitution and HIV infection.

GIRLS IN NEED OF SPECIAL PROTECTION
TEMAK has carefully designed a center where training, rehabilitation, and economic empowerment for adolescent girls is conducted in order to improve the opportunities of teenage mothers.  Income generating activities are initiated for the girls in order to uplift their living standard. 

TEMAK CRAFTS
As part of TEMAK's Economic Empowerment Plan, we promote and train girls and young women in Arts and Crafts skills and techniques using locally available materials like hyacinth, papyrus, sisal and many other available materials.

TEMAK provides a conducive atmosphere for girls and children to acquire craft skills e.g. doll making, tie and dye, batik and creating tin and wire products, which are later sold. The income is used in support of the girls' projects or given out to individual girls or groups to start small scale business. TEMAK uses the same income to pay rent for those girls who are very desperate.

With every purchase you make, you will help us support the girls and children since every penny goes 100% in support of their educational, vocational and social support.

Your purchase of our art and craft items will give:-

• Teenage mothers a chance to earn a living.
• Child prostitutes alternative and better life options
•  House maids vocational skills
• Adolescent girls or mothers living with HIV hope
•  AIDS widows a better, healthier, and happier life
• Orphaned children an education - A $1 bookmark could feed an orphan, and enhance your library.

Be a global Wholesaler with TEMAK  We sell over 300 arts and crafts items! Several crafts shops around the world already stock our items. They are:

There are three shops in TEMAK’s home town of Kisumu, Kenya:

1. Kisumu Innovation Centre Kenya (KICK) – Kisumu
2. Imperial Hotel – Kisumu
3. Tom Mboya Headquarters - Kisumu

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The young people behind TEMAK's Crafts