We are a small business based in Somerset that works closely with the Maasai community in Africa to supply you with a range of unusual handmade designer collars and dog leads made from traditional Maasai beadwork. Thank you for taking the time to visit our website, we hope you enjoy our products. With this unique range of collars and leads we offer you a high quality product coupled with an equally high level of customer service plus the reality that your contribution is going to supporting a Maasai community in the most practical and positive way possible and therefore backing the movement to "Make Poverty History" in the third world. Click here to view our full range of dog collars & leads.

Here you will find beautiful handmade Maasai beaded dog collars and leads produced by a collective which supports the lives of around 200 Maasai women. 50 'Mamas' are employed directly and they, in turn, re-employ another 4 people to help them with the volume of work. In real terms this means that 200 people plus their families will be helped and supported by the making and selling of these unique products. Apart from the Mamas approximately 28 people are employed full time in running the workshop where the dog collars and leads are assembled, checked and the orders sent out to customers. At the same time the men and women running the workshop will train additional people from surrounding Maasai communities to assemble collars and leads and ultimately give them control over this part of the business in their own community, providing them with a realistic means to become self sufficient through this unique business relationship.

The Maasai people have lived for centuries on the plains of the Masai Mara in Kenya, Africa. A proud, handsome and nomadic race their lives were traditionally devoted to protecting and caring for cattle. Indeed according to folklore, God had bequeathed all cattle in the world to the Maasai. Known for dressing in predominantly red robes, Maasai men and women have for generations adorned themselves with an array of vibrantly coloured beaded jewellery.

As tradition dictates that male Maasai are brave hunters and guides, so the Maasai women work hard taking care of their families, the cattle and the vagaries of daily life on the Mara. As the modern world threatens to encroach on this ancient people, the women of the tribes have quietly recognised that there is a demand for their unique handmade beadwork products giving them a new sense of independence as well as an independent income.