In a modest studio in Kisumu, 26-year-old Everline Odera is busy putting the final touches on a unique leather handbags she has been sewing for the last two days.
The pouch is not only unique in design but also in the material used to make it. For the last few months, Ms Odera has been training on how to turn fish leather into clothes and gifts items.
She is a member of Afrika Pamoja, a project by a community-based organisation called the Teenage Mothers and Girls Association of Kenya, (Temak).
The use of fish leather is becoming popular especially in the lakeside city of Kisumu where various government agencies and CBOs are working together to create value out of the resource until recently considered as waste.
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