00:01this tangled mass of hair extensions could have ended up in a dump site discarded hair is mixed
00:08with other rubbish and swept into heaps or left in places where rainwater can carry it into drainage
00:14channels but beauty business queening africa is giving used hair new life what most of the things
00:21that happens to the synthetic hair after it has been used it is like mostly dumped anywhere people
00:27don't care whatever happens to each that is where we come in that is why we have partnered with the
00:33salons so they we give them like bags that is where they dispose their synthetic hair from then
00:39we go and collect them and then we bring it to our workshop then the whole process of sorting
00:43cleaning and now hand crafting starts your women team sorts the hair by color and texture separates
00:51material that can be reused and washes it before preparing the strands for crafting there's a
00:58never-ending supply of the hair for the women to work with but not all of it makes the grade
01:03the
01:04finished products are stylish bags that no one would guess began life threaded onto someone's scalp
01:11besides helping reduce pollution the women work together as a group experienced members pass on
01:18their knowledge to younger workers what convinces me that an initiative like this is delivering economic
01:26value is the number of young people earning from it right now we have around 10 young women
01:36that are earning from cleaning africa these are people who are able to sustain themselves from a day-to-day
01:42operations even earning food paying their rent taking their children to school from such a business
01:50so that is clear evidence that such organization and such initiatives are economically sustainable
01:58for women working with queening africa transforming discarded synthetic hair into handmade products offers a way
02:05to earn an income while putting their skills to use
02:13healthcare benefits to help me with that education which is highly invested in getting in opportunity
02:14and that we still have to do that it does not help us to do that it does not help
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