Youth Home Cultural Group is also a school for 3 different handicrafts, namely smock-weaving, drum-making and tailoring. There is a professional instructor for each handicraft. The place is used by the apprentices every day from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The products produced at the place have our quality-guarantee and are sold to competitive prices. Everybody is welcome to join the handicraft-activities including visitors, tourists and foreign students of music and culture. The latter might benefit from participating in the drum-making activity in order to repair and put new skin on drums like djembe, kpanlogo-drums, gungon- and lunga-drums.

The handicraft-activities and the shop is open Monday to Saturday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Handicraft Shop

At the handicraft shop you can buy quality products, produced by the handicraft-instructors and their apprentices. The products for sale are

Smocks: A hand-woven male dress which is used for special occasions like weddings and name-giving ceremonies as well as for traditional dances. Prices depend on the size. A medium size smock is about 350.000 cedis (~35 $). We also make other designs and clothing from the beautiful handmade smock-material.

Traditional Drums: Gungon and lunga drums. On request also djembe and kpanlogo drums. The Gungon and Lunga drums are the traditional drums from the Northern Region. They are very powerful drums meant for outdoor playing. We make the drums in the best quality, and your satisfaction is guarantied! Our instructor is supplying the local musicians with the same
type of drums, and has 20 years experience in drum and costume making.

Costumes for dancing and drama. We have costumes ready for sale and we make your own designed costume on request. We also sell shirts, handbags, long dresses etc. designed in the beautiful handmade batik-material.

Souvenirs like necklaces, ear-rings, etc.