About Savannah Willow

Thanks for visiting our website, Savannah Willow. Founded by Georgia, continued by Zara.

The gorgeous products profiled here are only possible as result of hard-working skilled individuals in developing countries, who have been supported, trained and paid a fair wage for their work through social enterprises and community based organisations. Our Founder, Georgia, had the pleasure of working with these groups and sourcing the products and we are delighted to be able to share these beyond the communities in which they're made. 

Since 2007, Georgia had lived and worked with some of the world's most marginalised communities across Africa, Latin America and South East Asia. From launching a primary school curriculum in Malawi to managing HIV programmes in prisons in Kenya, she worked in countless countries and contexts, engaging at community level (such as with LGBT groups in Uganda and armed groups in the Congo) as well as at international policy level, where she worked at the UN in Geneva and with the Vatican.

Although her career changed and she welcomed her daughter to the world, Georgia wanted to remain working with, and for, the incredible communities and people she'd served in her career. Many of the individuals and community groups she had been privileged to work with have been hugely enterprising and skilled in producing wonderful handmade goods as a means to generate income. The idea Georgia had was to bring these items to a new market.

In October 2018 she reached out to a handful of colleagues and local organisations she had worked with, to identify genuine community driven groups who produce quality goods and sold these through her instagram account.

With the wonderful feedback from those who had bought the items, and encouragement from friends and family, she took this to the next step and developed a website, enabling us to reach more people and profile the communities and producers of these gorgeous items. 

The name Savannah Willow, are the middle names of Georgia's daughter - the catalyst for the brand.

During the summer of 2024 I was given the amazing opportunity to continue and develop this gorgeous business that Georgia put so much work and love into. I will continue to talk about Georgia and her incredible work around the world with these communities whilst continuing to support these fantastic people, keeping these fundamentals at the core of the brand.

Happy shopping

Zara