In January 2025 Los Angeles, California experienced one of the
most devastating urban wildfires in history, damaging over 15,000
homes and businesses. Just five days before these fires broke out,
60% of the Kantamanto market in Accra, Ghana was completely
destroyed by fire, affecting the livelihoods of more than 10,000
people.
With clothing donations piling up, these fires highlighted the
incredible amount of textiles that are treated as disposable and
overwhelmed already underfunded systems.
In the U.S, SUAY is the only fully circular textile recycling,
reuse, and repair model of its kind, recycling and repurposing
over 6 million pounds of textiles since it’s inception in 2017. In
Accra, Ghana the Kantamanto Market sees 15 million secondhand
garments every week and while this community serves as a global
model of innovation and recirculation of textiles at scale, the
oversupply of low value fast fashion poses an existential threat.
Together, SUAY and The Or are partnering to build a new model for
global textile management. The funds raised in this campaign will
support new systems to properly recycle and repurpose textiles at
scale and develop a model for global textile recirculation, both
everyday, and in response to disaster.
WHAT'S IN A TEXTILE CLEANUP BAG?
YOUR $20 SPONSORSHIP
of a Suay It Forward Bag:
FUNDS
the repurposing of over 120,000 pounds of textiles collected
from LA fire donation overflow into an upcycled collection
of 10,000 remade garments.
DEVELOPS
disaster response protocols for large-scale textile
management.
SUPPORTS
textile recycling, reuse and repair program expansion.
INVESTS
in local recovery initiatives in Accra, Ghana, providing
meaningful reparations to directly help impacted comunities
rebuild after the Kantaanto fires.
BE PART OF THE SOLUTION
BE PART OF THE SOLUTION
TEXTILES AREN'T TRASH
