The word Empowerment highlights Authority and Power; hence, to empower means the authority and power given to someone to do something.According to the European Institute for Gender Equality: “Women’s empowerment has five components: women’s sense of self-worth; their right to have and to determine choices; their right to have access to opportunities and resources; their right to have power to control their own lives, both within and outside the home; and their ability to influence the direction of social change to create a more just social and economic order, nationally and internationally. In this context, education, training, awareness raising, building Read More
What is Upcycling?
Fashion waste is costing the global economy more than $400 billion every year, according to a recent World Economic Forum report. And this is just the economic impact of fashion waste. Beyond economic loss, fashion waste leads to environmental disasters. Fashion is a massive contributor to the 1.2 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions released each year. Clothing manufacturing creates over half a million tons of microfiber pollution that ends in the ocean. Half a million tons of microfiber are the equivalent to 50 billion plastic bottles, each year. According to the United Nations report released in June 2013, World Population Read More