Assembling a mix of textile-dyed grass beads and hand-blown Czech & Japanese glass beads on elastic which was invented for the movie Spiderman, talented Maasai women and men in Kenya work not in factories but outside under the acacia tress in the Rift Valley - creating this fabulous Zulugrass jewelry for The Leakey Collection.  Founded by Katy and Philip Leakey, the youngest son of famed paleo-anthropologist Mary Leakey, The Leakey Collection has helped create over 1200 jobs which, in turn, support more than 10,00 people.  So the more you buy to pile them on en masse, the better your fashion karma.  Available at LeakeyCollection.com.

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