Artisan Story

Bonsile is an extremely hard working woman who is happy to share her skills and ideas with other woman. After school she decided to learn to become a seamstress, training with an individual who taught her how to use a machine, and she started her own business, designing and sewing track suits, cardigans and gloves for children. Realising that in order to sell she needs a unique product she would buy scraps from the local textile factories and create her own designs. Bonsile came to work for Quazi in 2010 at the age of 32, first as a seamstress and she has mastered how to make all our products. Alone, she pays school fess for three children and supports four people on her salary. She is a true believer that skills should be shared and women should support each other; having learnt traditional mat making from her mother she has passed on her hand craft skills to her children and says “to show other women how to  make something is important.”