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Now that she's seen the growth of her family's bead business in recent years, Elizabeth hopes to move to Accra and open her own bead shop.

Now that she's seen the growth of her family's bead business in recent years, Elizabeth hopes to move to Accra and open her own bead shop.

Elizabeth Kumah, Bead Maker
Bead-Making Center (Krobo)

Fifty-one year old Elizabeth feels that she was born to be a bead maker. Learning the trade at the early age of eight, she joined her family's bead making business with two of her siblings. The Obawale village-native now runs three tables at the local Angomanya market, displaying an amazing variety of trade beads, painted beads and her specialty, glass beads. Working alongside her husband, another bead maker, she has seen an 80% increase in her income since working with Global Mamas, allowing her to afford to send her four children to school and university. Between Global Mamas and her four other customers, Elizabeth has been able to expand her stock to include the small waist seed beads and even start design her own line of jewelry. Elizabeth explains how Global Mamas is her most reliable customer, and how many others never bother to even pick up and pay for their bead orders.


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