Products: the products are 100% natural, with no artificial flavours, colours or preservatives. ESK’s top sellers include Mango Chutney, Mixed Fruit Chutney, and the award-winning Swazi Fire hot sauce. With the value-add in country, these natural gourmet products bring the taste of Africa with a social ingredient. ESK markets its products as fairly traded. This claim is supported by its membership of COFTA and WFTO (Cooperation for Fair Trade in Africa and World Fair Trade Organization). These bodies assess an organisation’s commitment to 10 Fair Trade standards and award the WFTO mark.
ESK is a small factory which for 19 years has been supplying jams, jellies, marmalades, chutneys, atchars, and sauces to the Fair Trade markets in Europe, Australia, North America, and Japan, as well as regional markets in Southern Africa.
Eswatini (meaning ‘in Swaziland’) Swazi Kitchen was set up in 1991 by a Catholic priest, Father Larry McDonnell and an Anglican nun Sister Judith Dean O.B.E., to create employment in Swaziland for disadvantaged communities, and to generate income for Manzini Youth Care, a non-government organization caring for children affected by HIV/AIDS.
Eswatini has grown from a small cottage industry to a successful project producing quality products exported to 14 international destinations including Japan, Europe, U.K, America and Australia. Eswatini has recently become a registered member of COFTA, the Cooperation for Fair Trade in Africa. Eswatini Swazi Kitchen is wholly owned by Manzini Youth Care. The board of Management is comprised of local business people who give freely and generously of their time.
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