Established in 2016 to promote circularity in fashion as a driver for job creation, trade, export and tourism in Africa. Harness the creative talent in Fashion across Africa to create brands, products/businesses originating in Africa to access the $3 trillion USD global Fashion market.
Guide graduates and fashion professionals through design innovation, supply chain optimization, access to finance and business advisory, training, research, knowledge sharing, branding, promotion and market development.
Support all value chain activities including production/manufacturing to meet international standards. Promote recycling, upcycling, re-producing and management of secondhand/textile wastes. Micro producers from disadvantaged communities in Ghana are guided and empowered to produce to international standards and to participate in the international value chain, by working with raw material suppliers such as cotton growers and artisans in textile production. Build a creative and entrepreneurial class of African producers, who will appeal to a wider global consumer base, operationalizing on their niche.
Situated in the national capital of New Dheli, Sewa Shram Shakti Foundation is a section 60 registered NGO working for the upliftment of weavers and embroidery artisans and victims of Human trafficking.Development of women and girls in the informal sector is one of their key priorities. The project is led by Ravi Shanker Kumar, and it is authorized to work across India, currently operating in three different locations: Bihar, Jharkhand and New Delhi. Currently they are associated with 13 full time artisans in Delhi and more than 50 artisans are our regular work force.
Situated in Mysore, Karnataka, India, Bag N’ Stories works with woman from rural and urban areas in India, to produce a range of cotton carry bags, a project that seeks to empower women by giving them financial independence, through different kinds of activities that allow them to acquire the proper equipment and sustainably produce their products.
What do we have to do to decontaminate communities of electronic waste through a circular economy model?
How could we create a finer blended fiber from the water Hyacinth, to scale up, and have access to new markets?
Can we increase the usage of these fabrics in fashion, decor and design, while enabling consumers see the value of these fabrics and materials?
Is it possible to implement Circular Economy at the Grassroots level? Likewise...What could be the way to reduce India´s mountain of waste, improve energy efficiency & help Delhi´s poorest out of the city´s slums?
In Argentina, more than 20,000 young people are deprived of their liberties, of which 30% have not completed their primary studies. Once the sentences are served, their opportunities for training and access to working life are limited...
In the city of Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, there is a strong presence of the textile and design industry, which produces about 11 tons of waste per day that is untreated. That is why Lobo Corp - a startup - created a project that seeks to implement a technology, similar to that used by some European countries, in which textile waste is processed and regenerated, to be reincorporated into the production circuit, within the circular economy framework. This process and the technology it implies remain undeveloped in Argentina.