Doing Your Bit: Burkina Faso’s plastic weavers
27 October 2019 |
3:02 pm
A women's cooperative in Burkina Faso is combining female empowerment with eco protection: it employs around 100 women, providing them with training and an income, to turn plastic waste into new goods such as bags.
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