PROJECTS    
 

Apparel Cottage

The Apparel Cottage is a Social Business located on the outskirts of Lima, Peru; it is strategically located near the towns where each group of women selected to be micro-entrepreneurs live.

Vision and Mission Statement

One-by-One Apparel Cottages are committed to offering its clients quality eco-friendly products while eliminating poverty and enabling sustainable manufacturing.

Unlike other manufacturers in the market, we are doing things differently. The products OBO / Apparel Cottage represents are 100% GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standards) certified, representing the HIGHEST eco-social standards. Further, our facility will be the first facility to be certified as a Socially Responsible manufacturing facility where the workers are not employees but business owners.

We are set up to manufacture Your Private Labels

  • We can do business, through our established systems and infrastructure, with any business looking for immediate access to 100% organically grown GOTS certified, hand-finished pima cotton garments.
  • While our current production schedule is for newborn clothing, it could be for any crocheted, embroidered or hand-finished garment.
  

   
   
       


  Accomplishments:  
 

Apparel cottage checklist for Peru

  • Recruited micro-entrepreneurs
  • Set up micro-entrepreneurial collectives - legal structuring
  • Located work space and equipment
  • Secured organic farms for cotton supply (GOTS certified)
  • Contracted yarn spinners & textile makers (GOTS certified)
  • Secured micro-loans with banks for micro-entrepreneurs to start their businesses
  • Established manufacturing criteria for production and quality control
  • Working on exclusive 100% organic / socially responsible certification by GOTS to manufacture the garments
  • Established relations with NGO's to provide added support to micro-entrepreneurs