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Eco-friendly shoe manufacturing creates job in Rwanda
UZURI K&Y is an african inspired eco-friendly shoe brand. Founded with the vision to brand Africa as an origin of sustainable fashion items, the social enterprise crafts viable solutions by recycling waste into functional footwear.
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Location
Rwanda
Programme
East Africa Accelerator
in partnership with Acumen
Site url
shop.uzuriky.com
Job creation in their communities is at the heart of the organisation. Accordingly UZURI K&Y equips women and youth with the skills to produce the practical footwear of the brand out of rubber tires.
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We are now more open-minded to scaling our business. Scaling a business must be planned and we had no idea how to do so before we joined the accelerator!
Kevine Kagirimpundu, CEO