Diving into a low-income and problematic community, we realized about the importance of economic stability to empower women. Making a line of backpacks and badges made by these women in need, gives them the opportunity to develop their abilities to improve their quality of life, also to their families. The acquisition of the backpack will raise awareness of girls from all around the world about the situation of women who manufacture it and their expectations. The backpack could be decorated and personalized with collectible badges of values, which will be able to win through challenges you'll find in the website.
The backpacks will be sold through an online platform in which we will show the background of the backpack, the story of the women who manufacture it and the impact it has when the customer buys one.
WHAT IS THE NEED YOU ARE TRYING TO SOLVE?
This project has double social impact. Firstly, it economically benefits to mothers who make the backpacks providing them with a fixed income; when a mom is financially independent, it allows her to choose a safer area to live. Secondly, when their daughters have access to these products, they would learn from the example of effort that her mother made to work and raise her family.
It is a product made by women to educate girls from different social classes.
Designer bags in a reachable price. We want to bring design, values and education to girls all over the world regardless of social classes.
Not only women, but children and men of the community would be affected by the project. They would learn from the huge social impact that women can make to change their communities. As a result we have empowerment in many areas.
Patching communities originates from a school program called TINO PROJECT, which helps problem kids in elementary grades. Through different workshops in order to give them the chance to develop in society. Additionally this program seeks that the parents of the children get involved by a new source of income that allows them to support their families. To help the mothers of these children get ahead economically we took a survey of the skills that they have in different areas. Sewing was one of the most common abilities, that is why we want to create an organization in which they can take advantage of their ability.
The backpacks will have striking designs created by different designers and will be manufactured by mothers of children in these public schools. These backpacks will be sold in a webpage in which girls of different ages and social classes will be able to see the kind of patches existing and the way they can obtain them by winning challenges of different categories where girls will learn playing as well as incorporate values such as courage, honesty, education, health etc. into their lives.
