Birmingham Women Connect Alabama And Africa To Clothe A Nation With New Hope

By Carla Davis

Although they are an ocean apart, Mary Jones and Stacey Scott are partnering to build a business that is changing lives.

It all began when Jones and her husband, both Birmingham-area doctors, were on an annual medical mission trip to Kenya in Africa in 2014. Confronted with the poverty and hardships the people face every day, Jones knew she had to do more.

“After getting to know the people and their spirit, I realized they want the same things for their family that we want for ours, but they are stuck in a never-ending cycle of poverty,” Jones said. “I wanted to do something to help them break out of that cycle. Kenya is where we first started working with the artisans.” Jones opened Maasai Chic in 2016. But doing business with a country thousands of miles from Birmingham was almost impossible. Breaking through the cultural and language barriers, having no contacts on the ground in Kenya and the time differences were big issues, she said.

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