SANKOFA EMPOWERING
WOMEN IN GHANA
UPLIFT.
INSPIRE.
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By Girls. • For Girls. •
SEWING leads an entrepreneurship and skills training fellowship program for young women in the Upper East Region in Northern Ghana. SEWING’s educational fellowship program focuses on promoting sustainable economic opportunities for young women through a curriculum centered on sewing and entrepreneurship. The fellowship program simultaneously works to mitigate the detrimental environmental consequences of the global fast-fashion industry by repurposing a fraction of the six million clothing garments that go to waste each week in Ghana.
WHAT ARE WE UP TO?
Learn more about the SEWING team’s work.
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WHO WE ARE.
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WHAT WE DO.
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HOW TO REACH US.
WHAT SETS
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Reaching hundreds of thousands of people worldwide with team members from five continents, SEWING is the only program advocating against chi ld labor and female exploitation in the Ghanaian Kayayei labor cycle on an international level . SEWING was featured at the 2022 World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates and in a textbook published by Westermann – one of the largest publishers in Europe – in 2022.
SEWING was founded under the guidance of PeaceJam, an international peace organization that connects young people with Nobel Peace Laureates to cultivate peace worldwide. Since its founding in 1993, PeaceJam has been led by 14 Nobel Peace Laureates and has worked with over 1.3 mi l l ion youth in 41 countries. Following PeaceJam’s mission, SEWING’s founders are four passionate young women who were inspired by and have connected with Nobel Peace Laureates such as His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Kailash Satyarthi, and Leymah Gbowee.
SEWING believes in bringing young people to the forefront of change and building an international multigenerational network of peacemakers.
