Skills are shared
Mary visits village communities to train women in practical, income-generating bag-making skills.
Purpose in Practice
More than bags
Mary Unique Designs exists to turn skill into opportunity — helping women in Kenya’s villages earn, grow and build independence.
500+Women Trained
17Years of Impact
300+Families Supported
VillagesAcross Kenya
How It Works
Skills open doors
Craft becomes product
With materials, quality standards and production support, those skills turn into bags people want to buy.
Markets create possibility
Customers, retailers and partners connect that craftsmanship to real, lasting income.
Figures are conservative totals from 17 years of training trips to villages across Kenya — the true reach is likely higher.
Meet the Women Behind the Work
Every bag has a maker
Founder
Mary Nduta
From laundry work at a school guest house to designing bags for the Global Bag Project — and now running her own enterprise and training women across Kenya.
Read her storyMary’s first employee
Tabitha
While caring for her 85-year-old grandmother, Tabitha found steady work making bags with Mary — the first time Mary’s business created a job for another woman.
Coming soon
More of their stories
With each woman’s permission, we’ll share who she is, the skills she learned, and what the work has made possible for her family.
What women learn
- Measuring & cutting fabric
- Machine sewing & finishing
- Working with kanga & African prints
- Quality & care
- Costing, pricing & selling
Grow the Impact
Back women’s skills and market access
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