woman in front of a pile of recycled clothes
Jul 10, 2025

Our old clothes heading to Africa

At One Army we're trying to understand the fashion problem with a project called Fixing Fashion (launching on April 19th). In this picture Alicia went to a clothing charity in the Netherlands where they gather clothes that are dumped into those “clothing donation boxes”.

It's a lot! And everything is sold to Africa. Compressed into these blocks and shipped to the other side of the planet. Each block is around 55KG, moved with a forklift in Netherlands and carried by woman on the head in Ghana. More on this topic soon.

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Sheetpress machine

Playful Sheetpress

darning repair on a sock

Socks darning repair

blue lamp made from recycled plastic

Lamps made in Korea

man washing some plastic

New washing system

Rocket Stove

DIY aluminum moulds

Green ex german army mercedes ambulance 609D converted to a camper parked on a land

Arrived in the land

Magazine cover

Coverboy

Prototype of a washing system

Washing system prototype

Shipping container converted in a workspace

Our basekamp in shipping containers

Fixing Fashion badge in the shape of a hashtag

Fixing Fashion badge is here

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people in a rock

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Fixed pants

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4 men with recycled bricks

Bricks from ocean plastic

Dumpsterdiving

Dumpsterdiving

Crate storage

Crate Storage

kinds pants fixed and repaired

First fixes from people

Project Kamp badge

Project Kamp Badge

Phoneblocks community map

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portrait of a man

First helper