Crafty refugees target global markets with high-end goods
Launched by the UN refugee agency in 2018, MADE51 links refugee artisans with social enterprises that help them create luxury products
13 July 2019 - 05:06
Nairobi — Rwandan refugee Anita Claudine knows the odds are stacked against her, but the fashion designer is unfazed in her ambition to one day see her dresses in the window displays of the luxury department stores of London, Paris and New York.
The 22-year-old woman, whose family fled to Kenya almost two decades ago, has no formal training in design and tailoring, no experience in sales and marketing — and certainly no contacts in the haute couture realms of Gucci and Jean Paul Gaultier...
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