Aki Handicraft Industrial Co-Operative Society Ltd.

Our society is located right in the Church Compound. It is a bit of a different setting compared to a typical industrial park. Aki Handicraft Industrial Co-Operative Society Ltd. has been operating from this space for a long time, and the atmosphere is generally quite calm. You can hear the sounds from the church nearby, which is a nice change from the usual city noise. Since we are a co-operative, there are many different people involved in what we do. The rooms are filled with the materials we use for our handicrafts, so there is always the smell of wood or fabric or whatever we are working on that week. It isn't a factory with big machines. Instead, you see people sitting at tables, working carefully with their hands. The lighting isn't the best in some of the back rooms, so we move the tables closer to the windows when the sun is out. We have old wooden cupboards full of finished pieces and half-done projects. Everyone knows each other here, and there is a lot of talk while we work. We don't have a big marketing department or a fancy website. We just focus on making things the way we were taught. Sometimes the local kids wander through the compound, and things get a bit loud, but we don't mind. It feels like a community effort more than just a regular business. We take pride in what we make, but we don't feel the need to shout about it.