Designer Clothing

It is April already, wow!


Observe this cycle: Farmers toil, farm hands get exposed to pesticides, poor Asians toil in sweatshops, one buys clothes in the west, the clothes are disposed and then the clothes are returned to the poor in Africa.

Are Africans too poor and second-class to rely on handouts? Even worse, are African farmers not worthy earning money from the cotton and yarn that they produce?

This system is clearly broken and I think that the end result should actually be in the recycling of used clothing instead of giving it back to Africans. Moreover, organizations that donate all these clothing should do a better job at tagging on the supply chain instead of transporting the clothes back to Africa.

If the farmers are empowered and given more money, then I do not think that the farmer plus those around him/her would need to be begging for clothes. This is just part of the thought that the more the world recycles, the better it is for Africa as it it will no longer be just another trash can.