Fair Trade
Visit Dining for Women’s Marketplace for more Fair Trade options.
Women’s Peace Collection
Investing in women is the basis for prosperity and peace in our world, and the Women’s Peace Collection is doing its part. Each item in this online, fair-trade store speaks to this hopeful vision: women’s hands are a force for peace. Owned by Sue Fish, a DFW member in Great Barrington, MA, the site sells jewelry, scarves, bags and more made by women from around the world who are rebuilding their lives in the shadows of war, civil strife or crippling poverty. All of the products are handcrafted, sustainable and will help empower women entrepreneurs. Dining for Women receives 10 percent of sales by mentioning DFW in the “Note to Women’s Peace Collection” during checkout. Visit Women’s Peace Collection here. Offer expires 6/1/19.
TisBest Philanthropy
TisBest Philanthropy sells donation gift cards. The sender purchases a gift card for the dollar amount of their choice. The recipient spends their TisBest Charity Gift Card by donating to a charity they believe in. TisBest donates a portion of their sales to Dining for Women.
Books
Fiction
By Reginald Abraham Mengi
Recommended by Maji Safi Group
From Amazon: This is a powerful account of the story of Africa told through the life of one of its contemporary shapers, Reginald Abraham Mengi of Tanzania. I Can, I Must, I Will comes at a time when Africa is casting a new vision that is guided largely by the power of entrepreneurship. There could be no better guiding light for that vision than the spirit of courage, determination and dedication to self-improvement that is so vividly represented by the life and work recounted in this book.
By Aidan Hartley
Recommended by Maji Safi Group
From Amazon: In his final days, Aidan Hartley’s father said to him, “We should have never come.” Those words spoke of a colonial legacy that stretched back through four generations of one British family. From a great-great-grandfather who defended British settlements in nineteenth-century New Zealand, to his father, a colonial officer sent to Africa in the 1920s and who later returned to raise a family there—these were intrepid men who traveled to exotic lands to conquer, build, and bear witness. And there was Aidan, who became a journalist covering Africa in the 1990s, a decade marked by terror and genocide.
Films
As seen in IMAX theaters, narrated by James Earl Jones
From Amazon: The Serengeti takes you on an extraordinary journey to east Africa to view a spectacle few humans have ever witnessed: the million wildebeests, zebras and antelope. Filmed entirely on location in Kenya and Tanzania, Africa: The Serengeti brings you spectacular vistas and dynamic aerials. It also features Africa’s greatest predators – lions, crocodiles and cheetahs – in deadly pursuit.
(Documentary)
From Amazon: When Eliaichi’s retired father moves back to Tanzania, she begins a film journey that examines the intricate fabric of multiracial identity, and grapples with the complex ties that children have to the cultures of their parents.
East Africa Swahili Music by Siti Binti Saad
Recommended by Maji Safi Group
Available on CD, vinyl, and streaming