Nyariga Craft Society was established in 1999 with the aim of empowering locals, mainly women in the community by creating a job that would bring them a source of income, thereby helping them take care of their families. Nyariga Craft Society are producers of unique quality and fashionable straw baskets that are suitable for domestic uses and exports which include hand straw bags, shopping baskets, decorative baskets, fruit baskets, table mats, laundry baskets and baskets for weddings, picnics and parties.

The Society has over fifteen women groups with each group ranging from 30 to 150 women weavers, and two hundred other individual weavers.

Nyariga Craft Society exports to the USA and across Europe and Asia and has participated in numerous international exhibitions such as the Ghanafest, NY Now, Magic Fair, Lagos and Abuja Fair.