Soon to be a documentary and the inspiration behind Project Repat, “I danced my ass off at Josh’s bar mitzvah. Santa Barbara, California. January, 2006," is the wordage nonprofit organizer Sean Hewens saw on a shirt on a rickshaw operator in Tanzania.
Hewens and Ross Lohr, who run two nonprofits in Tanzania, then had the bright idea to take shirts similar to these that made it to the African market after being donated to Goodwill or Salvation Army in the States and then resold, stamp them with a "REPATRIATED" logo, and sell them back in the States to hip kids who love their retro, kitschy shirts.
Profits support nonprofits Smallbean and Newton-Tanzania Initiative -- winter and spring proceeds already covered a new computer lab and scholarships for a schoolgirls in Tanzania.
Watch a video about it. (It's an awesome video, by the way.)
Via GOOD. (All images from Project Repat website.)
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