Kumasi-based Dignified Wear is recycling discarded car tyres into eco-friendly footwear.
Dignified Wear Recycling Tyres into Shoes
Formally EccoShoes, founded in 2013 by Mabel Suglo, a twenty-nine-year-old Ghanaian and social entrepreneur when she was just 19; the company employs people with disabilities to manufacture eye-catching shoes from discarded truck tyres, thus employing people who otherwise would be out of a job or below the poverty threshold.
Suglo says the idea started from her need to make shoes for her disabled grandmother. She began by using...
