{"id":989940,"date":"2026-09-18T10:02:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T10:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/?page_id=989940"},"modified":"2026-09-18T10:10:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T10:10:59","slug":"lse-2627-3-monkeybiz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/fr\/lse-2627-3-monkeybiz","title":{"rendered":"LSE-2627-3-MonkeyBiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vgblk-rw-wrapper limit-wrapper\">\n<h2>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/fr\/lse-2627-welcome\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\tWelcome\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h2>\n<h2>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/fr\/lse-2627-meet-up\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\tPartner Organisations\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h2>\n<h2>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/fr\/lse-2627-media-data\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\tUseful Resources\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h2>\n<h2>\n\t\t\t3. Monkeybiz\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/wp-content\/plugins\/beaver-builder-lite-version\/img\/pixel.png\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LSE x MonkeyBiz\" width=\"1260\" height=\"709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NWusnpkg4j8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\t\n\t<p>Monkeybiz is a Cape Town non-profit that has used traditional beadwork to uplift communities for about 26 years. It works with more than 100 beaders from the city&#8217;s townships. For most of them, Monkeybiz is a main source of income, and many have no other income beyond government grants. The organisation earns revenue in three ways: A small shop at the V&amp;A Waterfront, wholesale (the biggest sales channel, with many exports to the US and elsewhere), and custom projects with designers and artists.<\/p>\n<p>MonkeyBiz would like the LSE team to focus on two key areas: Marketing, which can only rely on a small budget, so Monkeybiz gets far less exposure than similar businesses, and funding limits make it hard to grow. The second challenge is production: Everything is done by hand with no automated or online system, which leads to frequent errors.<\/p>\n<p>Monkeybiz is still recovering from the Covid-crisis which forced it to give up its large retail shop in Bo-Kaap for a warehouse in a far less frequented area of Cape Town, Paarden Eiland. In the medium term, MonkeyBiz&#8217; aim is to stabilise the organisation and eventually reopen a large shop in a busy tourist area. They also want to raise brand awareness and use its current work with global designers to attract more international collaborators.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"  itemprop=\"url\" title=\"LogoReciprocity\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/LogoReciprocity.png\" alt=\"LogoReciprocity\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"65\" width=\"109\" data-link-type=\"url\" title=\"LogoReciprocity\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/LogoReciprocity.png 109w, https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/LogoReciprocity-18x12.png 18w\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"  itemprop=\"url\" title=\"LSE\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/LSE.png\" alt=\"LSE\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"225\" width=\"225\" data-link-type=\"url\" title=\"LSE\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/LSE.png 225w, https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/LSE-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/LSE-12x12.png 12w\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n<\/div><!-- .vgblk-rw-wrapper -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome Partner Organisations Useful Resources 3. Monkeybiz Monkeybiz is a Cape Town non-profit that has used traditional beadwork to uplift communities for about 26 years. It works with more than 100 beaders from the city&#8217;s townships. For most of them, Monkeybiz is a main source of income, and many have no other income beyond government&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-blank.php","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-989940","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/989940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989940"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/989940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989958,"href":"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/989940\/revisions\/989958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}