(Community Matters) “He is the third son of the famed paleoanthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey. Parts of his childhood were organized around expeditions to places like Olduvai Gorge where Louis and most especially Mary searched for bones, footprints and artifacts of early man. At 16, he decided to drop out and made a deal with his parents. He would fend for himself if they would hire a tutor to teach him Swahili. Kenya has 42 native tribes, and over the next years Phillip moved in with several. He started a series of small businesses — mining, safari, fertilizer manufacturing and so on. As one Kenyan told me, it’s quicker to list the jobs he didn’t hold than the ones he did.
Katy — an artist who baby-sat for Jane Goodall and led a cultural expedition up the Amazon —
and Philip have created an enterprise called the Leakey Collection, which employs up to 1,200 of the local Maasai, and sells designer jewelry and household items around the world. ” – David Brook’s column
wow!
http://www.leakeycollection.com “The Leakey Collection is dedicated to improvement of education in rural Kenya. Utilizing remnants of Zulugrass, Maasai artisans are designing one of a kind bracelets to symbolize the bright futures of educated children.”
In Austin:Tesoros Trading Company, Ten Thousand Villages, Gifts of Silence and Hyatt Regency (Lost Pines Resort)
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