BENIN PROJECT TURNS WASTE FABRIC INTO RECYCLED ‘GOLD’

EVERY morning, Amake Yessoufou makes the rounds of the sewing workshops of Ouidah, a small coastal town in the south of Benin, and collects scraps of fabric used by tailors to make clothes. In the past, waste fabric clogged up the gutters of Ouidah, but Yessoufou is part of one effort to change that culture and make the most of recycling materials. When Yessoufou ends her tour, the 28-year-old, who is deaf and mute, joins the ‘Colour Indigo’ workshop, a project transforming waste fabric into decorative objects.