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Social Enterprise: Entoto Beth Artisans And Founder Bethlehem Birhane

One of the first off the beaten track workshops I was excited to discover after moving back here 10 years ago was Entoto Beth Artisans – a small compound with women from Entoto working on creating innovative jewelry made from local recycled materials and scrap metals including coffee beans and bullets excavated from the Entoto […]

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Hadero Coffee – Striving To Become Africa’s Global Brand

Benyam Bisrat, the youngest of 9 children from the Jupiter family dynasty, is the managing Director of Jupiter International Hotel where he achieved great success culminating in Jupiter being credited as the best company in Ethiopia to work for (survey taken by Deloitte). Raised with the principals of taking care of People before Profit, Benyam

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Actuel Urban Living; Interior Furniture and Design in Addis

Actuel Interiors is a creative furniture design house with a vision to become the #1 contemporary urban lifestyle brand in Ethiopia and beyond. It designs and creates products that are functional, emotion inspiring and filled with a passion for beauty and quality. Actuel interiors bring together designers, architects, artisans and artists to re-imagine exciting and

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Sustainable Fashion

Sustainable fashion  (also known as eco-fashion) is a movement and process of fostering change to fashion products and the fashion system towards greater ecological integrity and social justice. Sustainable fashion concerns more than just addressing fashion textiles or products. It addresses the entire manner in which clothing is produced, who produces it, and how long the life span of a product is before

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Luxury Leather Company Helps Orphans and Empowers Women in Ethiopia

“Our mission is to produce and sell high-quality handcrafted leather goods to support orphans, create sustainable job opportunities, and train unemployed youth.” In addition to creating job opportunities, they also proudly donate 5% of their proceeds to Ekklesia Oromia, a charity supporting vulnerable families in Ethiopia. Most of Bille Leather’s employees are women whom Cherinet

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Bole Road Textiles

New York based designer Hana Getachew started Bolé Road Textiles out of a desire to merge her love of Ethiopian handwoven fabrics with her career in interior design. During her eleven years at a New York City architecture firm, Hana realized her affinity for vibrant colors and graphic patterns was a direct result of her

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