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We are dealing with cow bone, we are dealing with camel bone and the goat bone. The bones, we do buy them from the slaughter and then we bring them here to the workshop and then from there we make a lot of ornaments out of bones,\" says company chair, Dan Arunga.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe bones are carefully cleaned, dried, cut into different shapes and sizes and stained by hand. \u003cbr/\u003eVictorious Bone Craft is made up of young entrepreneurs from the sprawling Kibera Slums in Nairobi. \u003cbr/\u003eThe group learned how to use waste bones to make handcrafts in 2002 when they started a self-help outfit to provide employment to the youth in the slum. \u003cbr/\u003eBack then all the work was done manually. It was painstakingly slow until they introduced machines in the workshop that they currently rent, making it easier and faster to produce bone crafts.  \u003cbr/\u003eNow they finally have the capacity to produce on a much larger scale and are determined to attract global markets, but there are two major hurdles they need to overcome first. \u003cbr/\u003eThey lack the proper marketing for their finished products, so their exports are currently nil and come April 2015 a new railway line is going to be built through their workshop so they desperately need to find a new work space.\u003cbr/\u003eThe group currently has 25 members who depend on earnings from the project for their livelihood. Every member of the group is skilled in the craft and also trained in marketing their own finished products.\u003cbr/\u003eThe products made here look as good as ivory, but are legal and are as cheap as bare bones.   A necklace cost around USD $6. A bangle around USD $3. \u003cbr/\u003eUnlike ivory which is harvested through the killing of elephants and rhinos, the bones they use are waste materials which they collect from local slaughter houses.\u003cbr/\u003eThe group say it offers a legal alternative to ivory, an effort which it hopes to use as a marketing strategy to increase sales, especially to China and the Far East. \u003cbr/\u003e\"There has been, since the beginning of time, a lot of interest in ivory and ivory involves killing elephants and it involves getting wealth, but it involves the killing of animals. Bone jewellery is something that happens after the animal dies, we take the bones of camels, the bones of cows and bulls and we are able to make beautiful handicrafts from them, so no animal is killed in order to make bone, no sacrifice is made in order to make bone. It is a way of recycling natural waste into beauty,\" says Estelle Strizhak, a marketing consultant for the group who originally moved to Kenya from New York. \u003cbr/\u003e\"I think it is good, we as Kenyans to change our mentality of killing the animals. It is good, that we as Kenyans focus on bones, because when we are dealing with animals, we will not have the visitors from abroad countries come and visit us in Kenya here. So I would urge the people who are dealing with jewellery to focus on how they can turn bones to (jewellery),\" adds Arunga.  \u003cbr/\u003eSome of the finished products are displayed at the workshop office for people touring their premises to buy. \u003cbr/\u003eMost of their current sales come from local fashion shops. Occasionally, they get orders from abroad for custom made ornaments. \u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eNairobi, Kenya, 16th November  2014\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various shots of models walking down cat walk wearing bone jewellery at the Nairobi Fashion Market. UPSOUND: (ENGLISH) \"Victorious Bone group, specialises in African custom made handicrafts by recycling waste animal bones into beautiful natural jewellery.  Formed  in 2006, Victorious is part of the Kibera community and employs 25 members. You need to visit their stall.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eNairobi, Kenya, 14th November  2014\u003cbr/\u003e2. Various shots of Victorious bone group artists working on bones. \u003cbr/\u003e3. Close up shot of combs made from bone.\u003cbr/\u003e4. Various shots of Victorious Bone Craft members working on bones.\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide shot of man delivering bones.\u003cbr/\u003e6. Close up shot of bones.\u003cbr/\u003e7. Various shots of Dan Arunga sorting out bones.\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dan Arunga, Chairperson, Victorious Bone Craft.\u003cbr/\u003e\"In the workshop here, we are making a lot of jewellery, we are dealing with bones. We have 3 categories of bones of which we are dealing with. We are dealing with cow bone, we are dealing with camel bone and the goat bone. The bones, we do buy them from the slaughter and then we bring them here to the workshop and then from there we make a lot of ornaments out of bones.\" \u003cbr/\u003e9. Various shots of Victorious Bone Craft members working on bones.\u003cbr/\u003e10. Various shots of Estelle Strizhak selling bone artifacts at the Nairobi Fashion Market.\u003cbr/\u003e11. Various shots of bone artifacts.\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Estelle Strizhak, Marketing Director for Victorious Bone Craft.\u003cbr/\u003e\"There has been, since the beginning of time, a lot of interest in ivory and ivory involves killing elephants and it involves getting wealth, but it involves the killing of animals. Bone jewellery is something that happens after the animal dies, we take the bones of camels, the bones of cows and bulls and we are able to make beautiful handicrafts from them, so no animal is killed in order to make bone, no sacrifice is made in order to make bone. It is a way of recycling natural waste into beauty.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Various shots of artists staining bone artifacts.\u003cbr/\u003e14. Close up shot of bones that have been stained.\u003cbr/\u003e15. Various shots of artist working on jewellery.\u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dan Arunga, Chairperson, Victorious Bone Craft.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It has been sustainable for our families, because here is where we get our daily bread for our kids, here is where we get the school fee, here is where we get our money to buy the clothes, to pay the rents, to pay the water bill, to pay the power and all that. Even our parents also, they do get something from our pockets.\"\u003cbr/\u003e17. Various shots of bone products\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dan Arunga, Chairperson, Victorious Bone Craft.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think it is good, we as Kenyans to change our mentality of killing the animals. It is good, that we as Kenyans focus on bones, because when we are dealing with animals, we will not have the visitors from abroad countries come and visit us in Kenya here. So I would urge the people who are dealing with jewellery to focus on how they can turn bones to (jewellery).\" \u003cbr/\u003e19. 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