Wood carving in Kenya
Wood-carving is an industry that provides income to many households through trade of prized wooden artifacts.
It is estimated that over 6,000 wood carvers in Kenya are engaged in this business with over 250,000 people economically dependent on this growing trade
Sawmillers lobby seeks fair tendering
Small sawmillers have formed an association to enable them push for fair awarding of logging tenders in gazetted forests by the Kenya Forest Service.
The Timber Traders Association, made up of members who have decamped from the chief Timber Manufacturers Association, targets to register more than 1,000 members across the country.
Dire Shortage Of Timber Forcing Merchants To Import Commodity
He reveals that the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) has generated plantation logging plans, and is in the process of completing an inventory that will establish the extent of forest plantations in Kenya.
This plan he says, may help increase the forest cover that currently stands at 312,500 acres that comprises 6 percent of the gazetted forests in the country.
Burnley charity - Furniture for Education Worldwide - raises more than £15k in a single evening
A BURNLEY charity has raised more than £15,000 in a single evening to send furniture to some of the most impoverished schools across the globe.
Furniture for Education Worldwide (FEW) was held the event at the Dunkenalgh Hotel, Clayton-le-Moors, which was attended by more than 300 of Lancashire’s business movers and shakers.
