Over 10,000 delegates from various countries of the world attended a trade fair conducted along side the Third World Human Settlements Forum (WUF) organized by UN-Habitat.
North Americans showed keen interest in textiles, hand-woven garments and woodcarvings from East Africa.
East African participants in the trade fair expressed that the Canadian visitors bought many hand made goods in particular as against industrial products from other parts of the world.
Visitors at the fair showed keen interest in handicrafts & handloom items and many ordered millions of shillings worth goods.
The test for the traders of Uganda was now to produce more quality goods so as to widen their export market.
Women from Kenya can lift themselves out of poverty if they are able to produce quality hand-woven clothes as the export market has high potentiality to expand.
Tanzanian handbags for women, woodcarvings depicting various animals, khangas and hand made decorations are in great demand in NA and if proper efforts are made, markets can be easily captured.
