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Fabric of Change awards given away to select groups

Ashoka and the C&A Foundation have given away the €180,000 Fabric of Change award. The project launched in 2015, was aimed at addressing questions surrounding gender inequality, human rights abuses, unnecessary waste and child labour in the textile industry. The Fabric of Change initiative was incepted by social innovators, Ashoka, and the C&A Foundation, who fund the project. Last month, the prize money was awarded from the project’s ‘Scaling Impact Fund’, to four participants who Ashoka says will be able to address these environmental and social questions.

One is CanopyStyle, which has developed a strategy to eliminate endangered forest fiber sources from the manufacturing process. The company is seeking to ensure that the textile industry’s supply chain is as transparent as possible in protecting ancient forests from being used to produce viscose from wood pulp.

The Gender Justice award went to Rebecca van Bergen executive director and founder of Nest. Bergen received the award for developing a process for ethical compliance for self-employed, home workers and artisans in what she calls the ‘informal economy’. The strategy is a response to artisan craft and home employment being the second largest employer of women in developing economies, as up to 60 per cent of garment production is in the home, with unregulated working conditions. The strategy plans to reach over 2,00,000 artisans by 2020 and will launch a steering committee of major retail brands to pilot the initiative.

Other prize winner was Poder which has developed a platform to improve conditions for maquiladora workers in the textile sector and give them increased access to information and eliminating deniability of large companies.

 
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