Solid, Wim Depickere Fashion Revolution Week On the 24th of April the fashion world commemorates en enormous tragedy that happened 9 years ago. In April 2013 a few garment workers in the Rana Plaza factory (Bangladesh) noticed some cracks in the... 21 Apr 2022 Crafts news
Solid, Marijke Jans Who made your clothes ? Aurora did ! Ask us who made your clothes.. please! We will give you names and stories about their families, we’ll show you safe work conditions and fair wages.We would like to show you things can be different. Yo... 1 Feb 2022 Crafts news
Solid, Marijke Jans Meet the crew: Fernando We proudly present you Fernando. Fernand is the export manager of our Peruvian workshop Manta. He is an expert in communicating and organising all the shipment logistics travelling from the Peruvian A... Meet the team 1 Feb 2022 Crafts news
Solid, Marijke Jans Martha, the general manager of our knitting workshop in Ayacucho, Peru. A look behind the scenes at Solid. We proudly present you: Martha, the general manager of our knitting workshop in Ayacucho, Peru. Hola, Martha, can you tell us something about your background and edu... Meet the team 1 Feb 2022 Social Impact
Solid, Marijke Jans Solid Crafts : Fashion Revolution S OLID CRAFTS : FASHION REVOLUTION Almost 15 years ago, Lyn Verelst, daughter of Solid’s founder, travelled to South America and ended up in the region of Ayacucho in Peru. Homeland of the alpacas, sp... 1 Feb 2022 Crafts news
Solid, Marijke Jans SOLID: LESSONS LEARNED DURING 15 YEARS OF SOLID PERU Hip hip hooray! Today Solid and its projects in Peru celebrate their 15th anniversary. As you may well know, Solid was born from a feeling of injustice. It just wasn’t right that certain unspeakable t... 1 Feb 2022 Social Impact
Solid, Marijke Jans Vaccination update Recently, we’ve received many questions about the current state of affairs regarding the pandemic in India and Peru, and particularly about the vaccination rate in the areas of our Solid projects. So ... 18 Nov 2021 Social Impact
Solid, Marijke Jans Meet the Maker - Shashi Shashi Kacchap (29): Production supervisor and quality control for weaving, since April 2017 Thanks to a system she had worked out with her brother, Shashi was able to go to secondary school. She work... 18 Nov 2021 Social Impact
Solid, Marijke Jans Meet the Maker - Soni Soni Tirkey (25): craftswoman and weaver since April 2017 Soni is a weaver, working at the Paces Crafts workshop. But she was always a little different from the other kids in her neighbourhood. When s... 18 Nov 2021 Social Impact
Solid, Marijke Jans Stories that motivate us Ruth Melisa Hinostroza Alarcón is a native of Munaypata, a small village located at 1 hour and 30 minutes from the city of Ayacucho, at an altitude of 2700 metres above sea level. At the age of 22, sh... JOVEM 18 Nov 2021 Social Impact
Solid, Marijke Jans Paces Crafts 5th birthday - Solid India The inspiration The idea to start a textile workshop in India was born when Lyn, the founder of Solid, learned about the many Indian women that are forced to migrate from poor states like Jharkhand to... 18 Nov 2021 Social Impact
