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The New Cooking bag team consists of twelve
workers: nine women and three young men. Two of them are
students graduating from the Special School. Two hearing
impaired young men are part of the team temporarily to gain some
work experience and invest in their future lives. Two men of the
Tuma Viela team are regularly put to work picking orders and
taking the NCB’s to different bus stations. They work on the
logistics, making it possible to distribute the NCB's across the
whole of Ghana. |
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A lot of dust comes from working with kapok,
so we have a special room in the workshop for filling the New
Cooking Bags with kapok. |
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For every worker, four NCB’s per day can be
produced. Everyone has their own task within the production
process. |
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New Cooking Bag has taken up residence in
a beautiful new workshop, about 10 minutes going from the
Tuma Viela workshop. The workshop is housed in a
self-contained, large house, surrounded by a walled-in
garden. It has a large storage room for finished NCB’s, a
space for cutting the NCB's, a kapok room, several storage
rooms for kapok, a kitchen and toilets. Our storage room for
fabrics also serves as an office.
There is a separate room for the ladies
of Reusable Care Creations and a large hall where the New
Cooking Bags are sewn. Besides all that, we also use the
veranda a lot. It's a great place for dusting off the NCB’s
and getting them ready to be shipped.
We use hand sewing machines or sewing
machines operated with a foot pedal. That way, we are not
dependant on electricity and the power cuts that happen
regularly here.
We are getting ever more skilled and we
keep learning from each other. |
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The workshop could be created thanks to
sponsors from the Netherlands. |
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The workshop is located in one of the
newer areas of Tamale, called Russia Bungalows. This
neighbourhood of bungalows built on spacious plots
originates from around 40 years ago. With a good main road
running along it, the workshop is situated on an excellent
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Reusable
Care Creations |
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The staff in our workshop also includes
two women who started our new project, Reusable Care
Creations. They develop washable nappies and washable
sanitary towels. |
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