The Sijwa Project

Created and run with pure love and passion, The Sijwa Project was launched in 2018 with a vision of empowering the community by creating jobs, preserving traditional knowledge, teaching skills and conserving the environment.
The project re-purposes and re-invents all recyclable waste from African Monarch Lodges and the local community, turning it into exquisite saleable craft and art.
It’s also an organic permaculture nursery to supply food for locals and lodge guests (mitigating the miles that lodge food usually travels).
It’s an artisanal skills training centre, a free-range egg scheme, and an indigenous tree nursery that will soon allow guests to buy and plant a tree to offset their carbon footprint (the tree is looked after by a local ‘tree guardian’ to ensure a better chance of survival against nibbling antelope).
We are also keen to soon start a pottery workshop using clay from the mighty Kwando River.