RecycloCraftz started in 2008 while our founder, Tracy Murray, and her family of nine were living in Zambia as missionaries. Tracy’s heart was quickly drawn into a deep friendship with her Zambian pastor’s wife and family. She soon found out their family was living on a combined income of less than $500 a month. Both husband and wife were working full time, one a pastor, the other a nurse mid-wife. They were struggling to make ends meet while trying to educate their three young adult children.
Through a prayer partnership she travelled into one of the numerous compound ghetto slums near her home and was even more shocked to find a much larger group of struggling Zambians in the capital city of Lusaka living on less than $2 a day. Someone suggested she start a handbag ministry to help. She told God ‘NO!’ She was happy working with children in the AWANA ministry at church; she did not want to work with women. Tracy, after prayer and more conversation with her pastor’s wife, began what is now Recyclocraftz.
Here we are, 12 years later. We are blown away at the impact God has graciously made through this organization and are expectantlywaiting to see how God is going to open new possibilities of hope for a better tomorrow in Zambia.