Apply innovative upcycling techniques to donated fabrics and related materials
Ahla Fawda is an independent non-for-profit organization registered in 2014, in Lebanon. Its mission is to stand with those affected by hardship, providing essential support, empowering talents, and instilling positive change. Its activities have grown to respond to the emerging needs of the community focusing on humanitarian, cultural, and environmental services with a circular economic and community engagement approach.
Fabric Positive aims at applying innovative upcycling techniques to donated fabrics and related materials: minimizing the textile waste coming from discarded donated clothes by repurposing the damaged fabrics into appealing fashion garments and applying innovative design and upcycling techniques to produce beautiful, functional, and highly impactful items and products.
Ahla Fawda receives large donations of clothing and fashion items on a weekly basis, some of which are damaged or out of fashion and thus unsuitable for direct distribution to beneficiaries. The main challenge is transforming fabric waste into new creations and promoting upcycled fashion and home accessories.
Efforts include combining fabrics with other materials, resulting in innovative fashion items and home accessories to:
If you are a Lebanese early and growth stage venture in the textile and clothing sector or a Lebanese independent entrepreneur offering a potential innovative solution to the challenge, head to The Switchers’ Open-Eco Innovation Platform, create an account, and ‘Submit a new idea’.
Make sure to include the following in the description of your solution:
Feel free to attach any document that can give us a clearer idea about the innovative solution and how you are planning to implement it.
The challenge is launched by Ahla Fawda in collaboration with Berytech in the framework of the STAND Up! Project, an ENICBC Med funded project that aims to enhance scalable, replicable, and inclusive circular economy ventures in the Mediterranean by developing an ecosystem of business support, innovation, and technology transfer leading to sustainable job creation for youth and women and the agreements between innovators/academy and entrepreneurs/SMEs by means of the available platforms.
Berytech Mathaf
Damascus Street, Museum District
Achrafieh, Beirut, Lebanon
+961 (1) 61 25 00
Berytech Mar Roukoz
Saint Joseph University
Sciences & Technology Campus
Dekwaneh, Mount Lebanon
+961 (4) 53 30 40
Berytech BDD 1294
Bechara El Khoury Street
Beirut Digital District
Bachoura, Beirut, Lebanon
+961 (1) 64 95 55
P.O. Box
11-7503 Riad el Solh, 1107 2240 Beirut, Lebanon