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We talk to Mabel Suglo, the founder of Dignified Wear, a social enterprise in Ghana. It aims to economically empower people with disabilities and rural women through decent jobs. It trains and then employs them to handcraft durable, versatile and fashionable shoes, handbags, locally woven fabrics, clothing and traditional jewellery.
Podcast host Catherine Weetman helps businesses use circular, regenerative and fair solutions to do better, with less.
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Read on for more on our guest and links to the people, organisations and other resources we mention.
Links we mention in the episode:
- Catherine’s blog on social entrepreneurs in Africa – Transforming plastic waste into social value https://www.rethinkglobal.info/plastic-waste-social-value-africa/
- Podcast Episode 23 features a circular social enterprise in Uganda: Andy Bownds of EcoBrixs: creating social value by recycling waste plastic into construction materials https://www.rethinkglobal.info/episode-23-andy-bownds-eco-brixs/
- You can find Mabel Suglo on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn with Mabel Suglo.
- Also on twitter @SugloMabel1
- Dignified Wear on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dignifiedwear/
- Dignified Wear on Facebook https://web.facebook.com/DignifiedWear/
- Dignified Wear on Twitter https://twitter.com/dignifiedwear
- Dignified Wear on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/dignifiedwear
- Dignified Wear website dignifiedwear.com
- Books and other companies
- Prince Agbata of Coliba in Ghana coliba.com.gh
- Chineyenwa Okoro Onu of Waste or Create in Ghana www.wasteorcreate.com
About Mabel Suglo
Mabel Suglo, through the inspiration from her late grandma, who had leprosy and with barely a thumb defied the odds of single motherhood, stigmatization and marginalization to cultivate food crops on a piece of land to feed her children and grandchildren proving that disability is not inability inspires her to economically empower persons with disabilities and rural women in Ghana through decent jobs through her social enterprise Dignified Wear.
An enterprise based in Sunyani, the Bono Region of Ghana, Dignified Wear trains and employs the physically challenged and rural women to handcraft durable, versatile and fashionable shoes, handbags, locally woven fabrics clothing and traditional jewelry. These are made from recycled tires, scrap fabrics, cotton threads, recycled glass and plastic bottles. To inspire the communities in which they live to be creative about reusing materials, extending their lifecycle and at the same time contribute to waste reduction.
She is an international award winning social entrepreneur with many accolades around the world including that of His Excellency Nana Akuffo-Addo, the president of the Republic of Ghana.
She has been featured on both local and international media such as BBC, CNN and Huffington Post.
She spends her free time mentoring girls to inspire and develop their leadership and entrepreneurial skills for the development of their communities.
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