A Handweave graduate/technician, or similar is required for a three week Ghana-based project.
Action Through Enterprise is a charity that operates in the far north of Ghana.
The charity helps local entrepreneurs set up in business by providing micro grants to enable them to buy equipment and materials to start trading.
Amongst those that the charity has assisted are a number of weavers who produce traditional fabric to the local market.
The environment of northern Ghana is particularly harsh, made more so by climate change, and as a result the local weavers are finding it increasingly difficult to sell their wares.
A private UK company ‘Milou Textiles’ has now been created to employ the local weavers and market their produce in the European marketplace.
Milou Textiles will return 25% of all profits from sales to Action Through Enterprise.
Milou are looking for a UK based weaver with good technical knowledge of hand weaving processes to help the weavers to adapt their practices from using their present rudimentary looms to using wider floor looms.
The successful applicant will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to Lawra in Upper West Ghana for two to three weeks in May or June 2018. For more information please contact Jonathan Hall of Milou Textiles. Vacancy Filled 16.1.2018 – please do not send applications in.
Text & images: Milou Textiles
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