Akilah Jaramogi
Designer
 
Kemba Jaramogi
Designer
 
Find Akilah's Jewelry at:
Normandi Hotel, Trinidad
Kapok Hotel, Trinidad
Apadoka, Trinidad
Vey en La Cou– Trinidad
Trinidad Carnival
Trinidad Emancipation
Shore Things Tobago
Art Fabric Grenada
Hilton Barbados
The Caribbean Art and Craft Festival– Tortula
St. Lucia Jazz Fest
The annual Caribbean Craft and Gift Show
Maroon Feat Grenada
Earthy Creations in Beads and Seeds

AKILAH'S JEWELRY is a woman owned St. Ann's based enterprise that manufactures and sells a line of high fashioned ecological ware made from beads, seeds, pods, stems, grass, bone and shells that can be found through-out the Caribbean.

Akilah Jaramogi is also the Co-founder of the Fondes Amandes Community Re-forestation Project. Currently she manages the project. She grows her seeds organically.

AKILAH'S JEWELRY has earned a reputation throughout Trinidad and Tobago and the wider Caribbean for its natural and unique designs and creative use of natural materials. Each piece of jewelry is unique and original, and can also be custom-designed to adjust for the special wishes of the client.

Akilah has worked with many local designs over the years; she also worked with the 1998 Miss Universe Committee which was hosted in Trinidad, outfitting the delegates with African ware and jewelry. Akilah is also the co-founder of the Caribbean Artisan Foundation and the Trinidad Artisan Foundation.

Kemba Jaramogi is the eldest daughter of Akilah Jaramogi. She is a young and new designer. She loves fashion and have worked on jewelry collections for local fashion houses such as Meiling and The Cloth. She is also involved in Youth work, in 2005 she represented the youth of Trinidad and Tobago in Mauritius. Kemba is currently in University persuing a degree in Psychology and Sociology.

Seeds used in the Production of this line of Ecological Jewelry:
TYPE COLOUR
Flamboyant Seed
Brown
Mogumbo Seed
Velvet-Gray
Bamboo Cream
Juju Seed Grey
Lucky Seed Light-Brown
Donkey-Eye Brown/Black
Monkey Basket Dark Brown
Coconut Shell Dark Brown
Palm Seed Brown
Wood Brown/Cream/Black
Soap Seed Black
Jumbie Bead Red/Red & Black
Shell Assorted Colours
Stinking Toe Mauve
Cocorite Seed Light Brown
Iron Wood Seed Dark Brown
Ecological Jewelry is Bio-degradable and it requires special care and treatment for it to last long, such as:
Store in a cool dry place. Do not wet it.
Apply body oils or other scented oils of your choice to maintain the nice shine and colour of your piece
For any sign of powdering use a dry brush to clean off the dust
Place in the refrigerator for a week or apply insect repellant oil to your piece for a week then rub off oil then ware
If your jewelry is damaged call for repairs
For orders and service:
 
Contact
 
Akilah's Jewelry
Phone: 1-868-689-7794
Fax: 1-868-625-5878
E-mail:akilahsjewelry
 
Address
Fondes Amandes Hills
St. Ann’s
Port-of-Spain
Trinidad, West Indies
Copyright ©2007 Fondes Amandes Community Re-Forestation Project. All Rights Reserved.