The Women4Climate program is to support emerging women leaders to become expert influencers while mobilizing others in their efforts to accelerate climate action in meeting Addis Ababa’s sustainable environmental targets.
Yididiya Damtew is a sustainable entrepreneur who wants to create positive change by sourcing products made from sustainable and renewable material focussing on the abundant resource of Bamboo. She aims to promote the story behind her accessory products and foster initiatives that conserve and protect the environment. Yididiya started her sustainable design journey with Sheba Socks an accessory brand of Sheba Threads, a start-up company whose aim is to infuse heritage, tradition and environmental ethics into its products. She believes a design that connects us to the natural environment can be a method of sustainability and our connection to the environment. The way she intends to do it is by offering bamboo made accessories like socks, rugs and blankets.
Sheba threads is aiming to produce bamboo threads in Ethiopia out of Ethiopian indigenous bamboo resources to fuse heritage & environment into its accessory brands. Her brand Sheba Socks has the aim to provide uniquely designed bamboo socks as a force for good. Born in Ethiopia, the brand adopts the traditional colours and patterns and weaves it into modern everyday accessories for everyone and every occasion. @Sheba Socks.
