The tshirts, if they end up abroad, contribute to ruining the local textile industry.
Many developing countries had local industry producing fabric and clothes, but they really struggle to compete with free or almost free waste Western clothes.
Many developing countries had local industry producing fabric and clothes, but they really struggle to compete with free or almost free waste Western clothes.
Lots of great learning starts here: https://apps.npr.org/tshirt/#/title
How does it ruin the local textile economy for a foreign company to pay the local mill to give out free shirts?
Those shirts were probably made in Asia, but ruin the African clothing industry.