Cotton made in Africa
Newsletter
Issue 1 / January, 2010
Dear Readers, Friends, and Supporters of Cotton Made in Africa:
Today our newsletter revolves, once again, around Africa. First stop northern Burkina Faso: At a Stakeholder Workshop held near the country’s capital Ougadougou, Cotton made in Africa partners and staff got a firsthand impression of how cotton farmers work. The farmers in turn were presented with the ultimate fruits of their labors in the form of consumer products made from cotton they produced. Christoph Kaut, Executive Director of the Aid by Trade Foundation, summed up the outing’s success as follows: “Both sides realize that they have equally important parts to play, and everyone’s work receives recognition.”
We then proceeded to Cape Town to pay a visit to an innovative supplier to the South African textile industry. Poly(nation) employs women from the surrounding townships, who otherwise have trouble finding paying jobs, to craft beaded hang tags and logos. The original designs, rendered using traditional skills, are in ever greater demand.
And finally, we took a look at a new book by an award-winning Africa correspondent for the German newsweekly DIE ZEIT, Bartholomäus Grill. Only a few months away from World Cup opening festivities and with the African Nations Cup still going on, the book provides a unique picture of how soccer has cast a spell over an entire continent in both positive and negative ways, whether as a positive force in daily life or a bizarre tool to further suspect political ends.
In today’s issue:
African Originals.
At the Cape Town manufacturer Poly(nation), underprivileged women from poor townships create handcrafts for the textile industry >>
We Are Family!
The first Cotton made in Africa Compaci Stakeholder Workshop was held in Ougadougou, capital of Burkina Faso >>
Goal!
The World Cup in South Africa is moving ever closer. A terrific new book by Bartholomäus Grill sheds light on the contradictory world of African soccer >>
Wishing you much enjoyment as you read and discover,
Dr. Johannes Merck
Board of Directors
Aid by Trade Foundation
Strategic Partners and Sponsors:
- 1888 Mills Inc. (USA)
- Accenture
- Avery Dennison
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ)
- Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (DEG)
- Deutsche Welthungerhilfe
- Dunavant S.A.
- Faso Coton
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH
- McCann Erickson
- Naturschutzbund Deutschland e.V.
- Stiftung Umwelt und Entwicklung Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Otto Group
- REWE Group
- Tchibo GmbH
- Alterra, Universität Wageningen
- World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF)
Demand alliance:
- 1888 Mills
- Anson's
- APART
- Baur
- Bierbaum Unternehmensgruppe
- Bodet & Horst
- Celio
- Edgars (South Africa)
- Engelhorn
- f.a.n. Frankenstolz Schlafkomfort
- Frankonia
- Heine
- Hirmer
- H.I.S. Jeans
- Mattes & Ammann
- Merison
- Mustang Jeans
- MONKS (Belgium)
- Olsen
- OTTO
- Peek&Cloppenburg
- PKZ
- PUMA
- QVC
- REWE GROUP
- Schwab
- s.Oliver
- Tchibo
- Tisseray & Cie.
- Tom Tailor
- 3suisses
- Witt Weiden
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D-22177 Hamburg
Germany
Tel.: +49 40 - 64 61 5608
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e-Mail: info@abt-foundation.org
Board of Directors:
Dr. Johannes Merck
e-Mail: johannes.merck@abt-foundation.org
Editor:
Sylvia Sergl
e-Mail: redaktion@abt-foundation.org
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