Ethnic Brand - Nairobi, Kenya

Ethnic Brand is a virtual factory that connects marginalized artisans living in slums across sub-Saharan Africa to global fashion brands. Using mobile phones and a USSD platform, artisans can receive orders from fashion brands and work remotely to fulfill them. Ethnic's goal is to provide manufacturing as a service, thus eliminating the need for physical factories in the fashion industry, which are the biggest sources of environmental pollution.