Community Partners:
The MFI Foundation:
The Matilda Flow Inclusion Foundation (The MFI Foundation) is a non-profit community-based organization in Greater Accra, Ghana. The organization operates an upcycling studio at which artisans and trainees who have been displaced by the global fast fashion and secondhand clothing industries create tie-dye and denim products out of textile waste sent to Ghana from the Global North. The organization centers women, disabled people, and parents of children with disabilities in its programs and advocacy around the barriers to basic income these groups often face in the community and globally. The organization was founded by Matilda Lartey, a fashion designer and environmental educator, and is governed by a board of local activists and artisans. Learn more at mfifoundationghana.org, or follow MFI on Instagram at @mfifashionghana.
Make Fashion Clean (MFC):
Make Fashion Clean (MFC or MFC Tie-Dye Inc.) is a 501c3 non-profit organization whose mission is to reduce global fashion pollution by upcycling textile waste and educating about pollution. MFC creates repurposed denim and tie-dye products out of textile waste sent to Ghana from the Global North in partnership with a non-profit community-based organization in Greater Accra, Ghana called The Matilda Flow Inclusion Foundation (The MFI Foundation). This upcycling partnership generates employment and job training in the creative economy for artisans who have been displaced by the global fast fashion and secondhand clothing industries. It also diverts textile waste from landfills, open-air dumps, and the environment to reduce the impacts of pollution. MFC also collaborates with the The Aftermath Learning Lab on research and art projects at the intersection of textile-related pollution, policy, education, environment, and health. Learn more at makefashionclean.org, or follow MFC on Instagram @makefashionclean.
