Fairliebt in Nairobi
Monday, December 31st, 2007 Posted in Blog | No Comments »Fairliebt is a fine, young ethical T-shirt label from Hamburg in Germany. They use fair trade shirts from organic cotton and sustainable screen print techniques. The shirts are recognizable by their clear, playful designs.Their T-shirts are made by Lamu Lamu ...
Eco-fashion is getting hot in Stockholm
Friday, December 21st, 2007 Posted in Blog | No Comments »Stockholm is becoming a meltingpot of hot, organic fashion and anticorporate blackspot. Thursday we went for a few hours eco-fashion hunting in Stockholm, in search for future Pamoyo selling shops and for general interest off course. First we visited ...
Organic cotton farming in Uganda
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 Posted in Blog | 2 Comments »In Northern Uganda, in the region around Lira, there is as much as 27 thousand farmers (!!!) growing organic cotton. The farmers are united in a cooperative with chosen representatives. The organic cotton project here is started by and running ...
Uganda: the reality of production
Saturday, December 15th, 2007 Posted in Blog | No Comments »After the workshop in Kenya I took a bus from Nairobi to Kampala, the capital of Uganda. The trip with Akamba bus took about fifteen hours. It was relatively comfortable, compared to Matatu traveling, where you sit in a small ...
Ethical Fashion in Kenya
Friday, December 7th, 2007 Posted in Blog | No Comments »Last weeks Frans visited Kenya and Uganda and visited several projects there. The trip started with the workshop Africa Inspires in Nairobi, organized by the Ethical Fashion Forum, an international platform for ethical fashion brands and initiatives, and the ITC. ...