Social and environmental impacts
| Code | Key quotes |
|---|---|
| Social impact | The most important areas of impact we are creating is employment, and preserving the environment, but the priority is creating employment |
| We pay school fees | |
| I have supported the artisan’s families for the past 20 years. We have helped them to buy land so they can build their own houses | |
| We provide a pension and money saving scheme for our employees because a lot of them do not have bank accounts | |
| Fund the community school and promote education | |
| We organize cervical cancer screenings and community health programs | |
| Fairtrade employment, environmental practices, a percentage of profits going back to school, flexible working hours and we work with the team for skills development and training | |
| We run a preschool and do a little bit of farming to support the community | |
| Initially, our focus was education, building schools and infrastructure and that sort of stuff. That grew and expanded, and we started taking a bigger stance on gender and offered a safe space for girls clubs to meet and talk about important things such as consent | |
| We focus on working with vulnerable women – young mothers and child brides | |
| The original idea was to take vulnerable women in the community and bring them into offer them skills and train them up so that they could start their own businesses. That initial group is now the backbone of the workshop | |
| The focus is to make sure that the women are happy and sustained | |
| The original vision is to empower women in low-income areas that lack education and skills that can bring them regular income. Particularly urban and peri urban women | |
| Success means creating something that is sustainable and empowering. Empowering women is the main drive | |
| We did research on the best kinds of reusable, washable pads and created that. We now have a workshop where we make the pads | |
| Environmental impact | We go big for environmental responsibility |
| We recycled everything we possibly can | |
| It is an ethical, all round, business practice that leans toward supporting vendors who practice upcycling to minimize their environmental impact | |
| Our beehive project started small. Give a family a beehive, teach how to care and use and harvest, now they can get work managing other hives and earn some additional income. Also, for hives you need trees, and this helps with conservation | |
| Use natural dyes and produce our own fabrics to reduce our carbon footprint | |
| There is a fund (our sales contribute to) called the Luangwa Community and Conservation Fund and 50% of that goes back into conservation | |
| We focus on biodiversity conservation | |
| (We use) fallen trees, no cutting | |
| The project uses upcycled materials such as fabric scraps, damaged cloth or clothes, VHS tapes, cardboard boxes, magazines, sale flyers and bottle caps |
| Code | Key quotes |
|---|---|
| Social impact | The most important areas of impact we are creating is employment, and preserving the environment, but the priority is creating employment |
| We pay school fees | |
| I have supported the artisan’s families for the past 20 years. We have helped them to buy land so they can build their own houses | |
| We provide a pension and money saving scheme for our employees because a lot of them do not have bank accounts | |
| Fund the community school and promote education | |
| We organize cervical cancer screenings and community health programs | |
| Fairtrade employment, environmental practices, a percentage of profits going back to school, flexible working hours and we work with the team for skills development and training | |
| We run a preschool and do a little bit of farming to support the community | |
| Initially, our focus was education, building schools and infrastructure and that sort of stuff. That grew and expanded, and we started taking a bigger stance on gender and offered a safe space for girls clubs to meet and talk about important things such as consent | |
| We focus on working with vulnerable women – young mothers and child brides | |
| The original idea was to take vulnerable women in the community and bring them into offer them skills and train them up so that they could start their own businesses. That initial group is now the backbone of the workshop | |
| The focus is to make sure that the women are happy and sustained | |
| The original vision is to empower women in low-income areas that lack education and skills that can bring them regular income. Particularly urban and peri urban women | |
| Success means creating something that is sustainable and empowering. Empowering women is the main drive | |
| We did research on the best kinds of reusable, washable pads and created that. We now have a workshop where we make the pads | |
| Environmental impact | We go big for environmental responsibility |
| We recycled everything we possibly can | |
| It is an ethical, all round, business practice that leans toward supporting vendors who practice upcycling to minimize their environmental impact | |
| Our beehive project started small. Give a family a beehive, teach how to care and use and harvest, now they can get work managing other hives and earn some additional income. Also, for hives you need trees, and this helps with conservation | |
| Use natural dyes and produce our own fabrics to reduce our carbon footprint | |
| There is a fund (our sales contribute to) called the Luangwa Community and Conservation Fund and 50% of that goes back into conservation | |
| We focus on biodiversity conservation | |
| (We use) fallen trees, no cutting | |
| The project uses upcycled materials such as fabric scraps, damaged cloth or clothes, VHS tapes, cardboard boxes, magazines, sale flyers and bottle caps |
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