East African Leather

These bags have no textile. The Leather is from farmers in East Africa who sell the hides as byproduct for extra income.

Telling the story

The Leather is from farmers in East Africa who sell the hides as byproduct for extra income, offseting economic hardship with selling their ‘waste’ to tanneries.

Cattle herding has been the primary and usually only source of income for people in these areas and usually the hides are buried underground to dispose of it. Now, communities dependent on farming can help offset economic hardships from other reasons by selling their ‘waste’ to tanneries which helps them with losses due to climate change (especially droughts)