Senegal women to speak at Kendal Oxfam event tonight (From The Westmorland Gazette)
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Senegal women to speak at Kendal Oxfam event tonight
3:31pm Thursday 2nd February 2012 in News
KENDAL residents will tonight learn how clothes donated to Oxfam help improve the lives of women in Senegal.
Women who work with Oxfam in Senegal will be talking at the Friends' Meeting House, in Kendal, at 7pm tonight.
They will explain how donated clothes are turned into jobs through an Oxfam initiative called Frip Etique.
South Lakes Oxfam volunteers will join them to explain how Kendal residents can get involved in a Ceilidh dance and a sponsored walk across Morecambe Bay to raise money for similar Oxfam projects.
Frip Ethique is an Oxfam-run initiative based in Senegal’s capital, Dakar.
They sort and sell clothing from the UK to local second-hand merchants.
Oxfam say after decades of conflict, Senegal's economy is in a desperate situation, with half the population unemployed and living below the poverty line.
However, through Frip Ethique Oxfam has created jobs – the wage is double the national average – invested money back in to local communities and empowered its female employees to work, support their families, and even save money for their futures The South Lakes Oxfam group, who raised almost £1,000 last year through coffee mornings and other events, is recruiting for new members for 2012.
This year they are planning for a Ceilidh and a sponsored walk across Morecambe Bay.
