OMBA ARTS TRUST
Karin le Roux
Background
• Evolved from Rossing Foundation Craft
Programme
• Independent Trust
• Independent Board of Trustees
• 3 Components
– Namibia Craft Centre
– Mud Hut Trading
– Omba Gallery
• Member of IFAT
What do we do?
• Major contributor to the development of Namibian
handmade
• Product development
• Market research and testing
• Marketing
• Mentoring and training
• Promote sustainable management and utilisation of
resources
• Promote Fair Trade
• Direct support to local economic development in
conservancies through craft production and marketing
Namibia Craft Centre
Omba Gallery
Omuthiya
G!hunku Crafts
Mud Hut Trading
Some of the products we have
developed……….