Education in adornment

In April Nic Tharpa Cartier and Riffat Bridal Specialist generously came to Morocco to teach at our cultural association HennaCafe Marrakech. The classes for local women were given free of charge, and resulted in a wave of consciousness within the henna artists in Marrakech regarding the extreme dangers of the use of PPD and also acetone in Faux'henna' mixes. These interactions opened a channel to communicate with and educate the nquashas working within tourism (not as simple as it sounds!) Since April I have followed the classes with outreach work in DJeema l Fna in central Medina Marrakech. To continue to help to empower these women to understand the benefits of natural organic henna we propose to supply safe natural henna ready mixed on a daily basis to any street artist in Marrakech who chooses to come to our courses. The next step of the project will be further classes this year. We need help to get Nic back to Marrakech to support us with this project.

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SARAH CORBETT July 13, 2012 at 10:41am

If you believe that natural henna is safe and important, and truly want to help to irradicate the use of other faux'hennas' please consider supporting Nic with his funds to come back to Marrakech and to work on this and other projects to empower the women working in creative ways to do so positively.

http://www.indiegogo.com/zakat
SARAH CORBETT July 13, 2012 at 10:43am

http://www.riffat.co.uk/

http://nomadhearthenna.com/
Harald July 13, 2012 at 11:02pm

I have heard that the mixing of the henna with indigo is very toxic but people like the color.

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