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KIMULI FASHIONABILITY

What Kimuli is doing
Kimuli Fashionability creates up-cycled fashion and increases on the employability of the physically impaired and deaf people through training them with free hands-on skills of creative tailoring.  Training them with creative tailoring skills turns their disability into an opportunity of creating their own employment while saving the environment from plastic waste accumulation. African fabrics are blended with waste materials. In the absence of hearing, deaf people for example often have heightened kinesthetic and visual abilities resulting in high quality products with love for detail.
Our target customers are both tourists who come to Uganda between the age of 20-70 years and African youths between the ages of 18-30 years who have love for African fashion. We also target stake holders like donors, investors and other care givers to boost the social business and scaling up to many African countries.

We have empowered 25 persons who are now self-sustainable. Many of their peers are seen as cursed or bewitched by Ugandan society and often kept indoors due to shame of the family because of their disability. This is why our sensitization programs in schools, children camps and fashion shows creates awareness to thousands to change their perception of disability, as well as waste. With our slogan “waste is only waste if you waste it”, we also sensitize Ugandans to see waste differently: It is Kimuli’s greatest resource and we inspire others to start small and grow big through up-cycling initiatives.

Kimuli Fashionability belives that persons with disabilities deserve the same opportunities as everyone else.








Mayembe plot 139, P.O. Box 35194 Kampala, UgandaEmail kimulifashions@gmail.com
Registration No 80020000512786 Phone: +256753783967

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