In Adamawa State, a simple idea that turns some of the town’s waste into creative fashionable pieces is not only saving the environment, it is helping the local women make a living.
Every Wednesday, some local women gather under the canopy to knit. It has been going on now for the past three years. What is unique about this group isn’t the knitting, it is the material knitted. Colourful pieces of discarded polythene bags have been picked from all over Adamawa’s capital, Yola and brought together by the local women to be used as the raw material from which bags, mats, purses and so much more are created. See some of the things they’ve made as you read on…
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