The production of all Kipepeo T-shirts – from the organic cultivation of the cotton to the finished garment – takes place over a distance of just 600 km at owner-run family businesses in Tanzania and Kenya. The designs on our T-shirts are created during the normal school day at schools in East Africa, which are supported through the sale of our products.
We call this holistic, transparent cycle the Kipepeo Cycle
An elephant, a giraffe, a lion – the designs on Kipepeo T-shirts are created as part of everyday school life in schools in Tanzania and Kenya, often quite incidentally during natural history lessons. Martin and Goodluck will tell you how a child’s drawing in a school notebook becomes a T-shirt design and how the idea for Kipepeo Clothing came about in 2008.
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The journey of a Kipepeo T-shirt begins in a cotton field in Tanzania. Ashura and Zacharia from BioSustain Ltd. show you how organically grown cotton thrives without any artificial irrigation, what constitutes a fair price for farmers, and how pests are kept at bay without the use of chemical pesticides.
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From loose fibres to finished fabric: we’ll show you how cotton is ginned, spun into yarn and processed into fabric on large circular knitting machines. Aditya and Martin will also answer a question many people ask: what actually happens to the wastewater from the dyeing process?
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Cutting, assembly, screen printing – in the final stage of production, every Kipepeo T-shirt takes on its final form. Get to know our team in Kenya and see, step by step, how our Kipepeo T-shirts are carefully handcrafted to the highest standards.
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Every Kipepeo T-shirt sold makes a difference locally: since 2008, the sale of our products has been supporting schools and education in Tanzania and Kenya. Find out which projects have been implemented and how the processes are carried out locally in the final stage of our Kipepeo Cycle.
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