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Our team
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Kawther el Obeid is CEO and business manager. Kawther is from
the Sudan and has lived in Ghana for nearly twenty years. She has a background in running her own
import company and procuring for one of the largest department stores in Ghana. Kawther takes care of the business,
legal, financial and accounting side of eShopAfrica. |
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Trish Graham our product sourcer. Trish is Canadian and has lived in West
Africa for nearly twenty years. She is a jewellery designer (see Jewellery Artisans above) and an expert on
African handicrafts. She is also an acknowledged expert on beads and has recently contributed to a book
&The Bead is Constant& published by the Ghana Bead Society. |
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Cordelia Salter is the founder of eShopAfrica.com. Cordelia is English and has lived in Egypt, Sudan,
Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and Ghana. She has a background in technology in development and is also active
in promoting fair trade for Africa. Cordelia founded eShopAfrica in Ghana in 1999 to prove that the technology could
be used to improve the lives or ordinary Africans. She is now the web team leader of FightHunger.org - the UN World Food Programme and partners ending child hunger by 2015. For more go to
cordelia.net |
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Edmond Abongo our shipping manager. If you make an order from eShopAfrica
it's Edmond who makes sure it arrives safely. He's an expert packer and knows how to get a good price from shippers.
Edmond is originally from Bolgatanga in the north of Ghana but now lives in Accra where he has a successful garden design business. |
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Our partners
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SustainableVillage.com -
fostering appropriate technology, renewable energy and sustainable development. As well as offering the world's
largest selection of appropriate technology and renewable energy products, Sustainable Village also powers a
networking community connecting projects with resources. Sustainable Village further support eShopAfrica by finding
markets in the US for our products and assisting with credit card processing. Sustainable Village are sponsoring
eShopAfrica's attendance at Sustainable Resources Conference 2003 - Hands on Solutions to World Poverty, Boulder, Colorado Sep 03.
Find out more. |
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Ghana Export Promotion Council
The Ghana Export Promotion Council (GEPC) is the public agency tasked with promoting Ghana's non-traditional products
in international markets. The Council also provides private and government parties with a range of market information
and statistical trade data services. Exporters receive business advisory services, product development assistance and
representation at major trade events. The GEPC have been supportive of eShopAfrica since its launch and have
assisted in expediting the business. |
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USAID/Ghana Government Trade and Investment Reform Programme
The purpose of this USAID-funded NGO is to support economic growth in Ghana through the increased production and
exports of non-traditional products. AMEX International runs training courses for artisans in various aspects of
business development from export quality issues, packaging and labelling, accounting and business practice and more.
eShopAfrica encourages its artisans to attend such training whenever possible |
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Aid to Artisans in Ghana (ATAG). Aid to Artisans in Ghana is an NGO
working with local artisans making them aware of international taste and style and helping them to ensure
that their products meet export quality criteria. Several of the artisans partnering with eShopAfrica have
been passed on to us by ATAG. |
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