

Tauro
Wire & Metal Works is a family run community workshop
in Tafara, a township outside Zimbabwe's capital Harare.
Today Tauro Wire Works has grown to provide a living
for half a dozen families in Tafara, as well as a number
of street children who help find the re-cycled materials
used to make the sculptures and who are also being taught
the craft. Zimbabwe has been experiencing its worst
economic crisis in recent years, with an unemployment
rate of over 50%. Their line of creations include a
range of African animals made from re-cycled telephone
wire, steel elephants made from re-cycled oil cans that
are stripped and twirled in a hand made lathe, and a
collection of bags made from re-cycled bottle caps.
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