About us
WE ARE: An impact driven clothing brand with a mission to return Uganda‘s textile industry to the peak levels of the early 1970s, when more cotton was processed inland than exported. RETURN TO SENDER is the first project series by BUZIGAHILL: We redesign second-hand clothes and redistribute them to the global North, where they were originally discarded before being shipped to Uganda. The once prosperous Ugandan textile industry has suffered significantly since the 1970s and has not recovered from the shocks of market liberalisation and globalisation to be able to create jobs, textiles and clothing for the population of 47 million. Local fashion has been replaced by imports of second-hand clothes and cheap, synthetic imitations from the global North. Ugandan design and production cannot compete against the low prices and diversity that second-hand clothing offers – these remain a threat to local economies and the environment. BUZIGAHILL and RETURN TO SENDER are a direct response to the impacts of second-hand clothing on Uganda’s textile industry.
contact
website
location
plot 13/15 De winton Street, Kampala