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Why won't Kiwi fashion brands protect overseas garment-makers from poverty?

Why won't Kiwi fashion brands protect overseas garment-makers from poverty?

Article in stuff.co.nz by Tracey Decena

The fashion industry may be vast and glamorous, but it is built on the backs of millions of women who live in poverty. Multi-million-dollar fashion brands rake in huge profits yearly, with fashion executives earning $2,500 per hour on average, while the lowest-paid worker in their supply chain gets as little as $0.65 per hour. When you look at it that way, you can’t deny who has the power and the responsibility to change the lives of the garment workers. It’s the clothing brands.

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2017 June - Newspaper Article in New Zealand

From sewing in Tamatea, to teaching women in India


Author: MEGAN HUNT

June 9 2017

Holi Boli founder Ana Wilkinson-Gee with some of her company's designs.


In 2010 Ana Wilkinson-Gee and her family moved to India.

To reach their home in Bhalupali, a small village in central Odisha on the country's east coast, the family of five fly into Kolkata then take a 12-hour train ride...

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