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Sarah Glaser
Location:
USA
University: Bowdoin College
Regions of interest: Asia, Africa, Middle East, Latin America, United States, Europe
Skills: economic development, environmental issues / alternative energy, fundraising, health, marketing/strategy, photography/documentary, teaching, women's empowerment, work with children
Volunteer Activity:
La Escuelita de Esperanza January 01, 2010 - May 01, 2010
Trashy Bags September 01, 2010 - May 01, 2011
Stories by this Volunteer
Trash, Trash, Trash
Trashy Bags, by Sarah Glaser
February 28, 2011
I first discovered Trashy Bags by accident, but anyone who has been to Ghana is familiar to trash, especially "pure water" and FanIce sachets (in Ghana, people drink water and ice cream out of bags!) everywhere: choking the open gutters, littering fields, and strewn along the roads. Trashy Bags, as it is written in a brochure "believes in life after death." In the showroom of the factory of Dworzulu, this was demonstrated in the rows of brightly colored bags displayed on shelves: all made from reclaimed, cleaned, and sewn plastic sachets. The ground floor was equally beautiful: Trashy Bags employs 60 seamstresses and workers to produce the bags. Above the clatter of the sewing machines and the singing of the radio, everyone was laughing and talking and exclaiming happily.So far,...
