TWINE FAIR TRADE COMPANY: FAIR FASHION
TaiwanKOLKATA, India
Year Founded:
Project Stage:
5
Organization type:
hybrid
Growth
Budget:
$10,000 - $50,000
Example: Walk us through a specific example(s) of how this solution makes a difference; include its primary activities.
By working with those Fair Trade organizations, we are providing more job opportunities for the women in the villages in those developing countries. So that they can stay in the villages with their kids and families without need to work in the factories in the big city. We also provide they some tools to ease some of their work, and also capacity building on the design, and quality of the products.
Impact: What is the impact of the work to date? Also describe the projected future impact for the coming years.
We are now working with 3500 producers in 8 counties.
We hope that as our project works out, we can be able to work with more producers, and also we welcome more people join in this work as well.
Spread Strategies: Moving forward, what are the main strategies for scaling impact?
We hope we can achieve in the next few years that we can have all of our clothes using organic cottons, and we can let more interactions between customers with the producers, such as the customers can have chance to visit and work with producers, or the producers can come and see who are their buying their products.
Financial Sustainability Plan: What is this solution’s plan to ensure financial sustainability?
Our main income is from our shops sales, so we have to make sure most of our shops has stable income monthly.
Marketplace: Who else is addressing the problem outlined here? How does the proposed project differ from these approaches?
We are part of the social enterprise network and Fair Trade shops network in Taiwan. We are also certified Guarantee System member of WFTO.
Different from the mainstream apparel market in Taiwan today, we are more concentrate on giving the background of our garments, to build step by step the customers who agree with this concept and want to support this concept.
Founding Story
We use our own saving to start this business without any founding.
Team
We have currently 8 full-time staff and 8 part-time staff, excluding the 2 founders. As the founders are originally designers, they are doing most of the management and design works. Other staff are mainly working for shop managements, and sales.
As the business growing, we will want to join more designers and marketing people in the future.
Value Chain: Where does your work fit into the apparel value chain? [check all that apply]
Consumption.
Your Role: What is your relationship to the apparel industry? [check all that apply]
Designer, Retail Representative - Specialty Store, Retail Representative - Mass-merchandise Chain, Trading Company Representative.
Target Population: What stakeholder groups do you engage or empower in your work? [check all that apply]
Brands, Designers, Retailers - Specialty Store.
Lever for Change: Select up to 3 ways your work is helping to transform the industry.
Advocacy, Certification, Standards.
Does your project utilize any of the innovative design principles below?
Activate Local Know-how for Driving Solutions: Build Opportunities for Workers to Become Leaders.
Innovation Inspiration: When you first conceived of your project, did you think of it as applicable to the apparel industry?
no
If you answered "no" to the previous question, which industry was your project originally aimed at transforming?
Fair Trade, Green consumerism, Human Rights & Equality.
● Replicating in the Apparel Industry: If your project didn't initially target the apparel industry, how are you specifically tailoring it to do so now?
Fair Trade clothing is more associate with people's daily life than Fair Trade handicrafts.
Are you nurturing or inspiring others to be changemakers? If so, how?
We frequently have newsletter in our website and screens of films about Fair and sustainable clothing.
● Tell us about the partnerships that enhance your approach. How have you collaborated with others in the industry to increase your impact?
We are part of Fashion Revolution member, and we also participate big exhibitions for sustainable lifestyles.
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