EVENT REPORT
SEEDS AND THREADS
Fashion Show Fundraising Event: 10th March 2017
Background: The Embassy of Italy and AVSI Foundation have a long standing history of cooperation in Uganda especially in the health sector, capacity building and vocational training. “Seeds and Threads” is a fashion show program born out of the desire to support African designers from Uganda, Nigeria, Congo, Madagascar and India. The event launched and fundraised for a workshop on the production of quality shirts at COWA Centenary Vocational Training School in Nsambya, a local professional institute that collaborates with AVSI through the Distance Support Program. Theme: Seeds and Threads, the African tradition in contemporary fashion.
Table of Contents Background......................................................................... 1 Theme................................................................................... 1 Purpose................................................................................. 1 Speakers: H.E. Domenico Fornara – Ambassador of Italy... 1 John Makoha – AVSI Country Representative.... 2 Rt. Hon. Rebecca Kadaga.............................................. 2
Purpose: To give visibility to young African designers and to raise funds to train COWA Centenary Vocational Training School students in skills to produce high quality shirts for a competitive market. The training will also be supported by a professional Italian designer from La Bottega dell’ Artigianato, a prominent Roman fashion firm.
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The vocational training sector has shown incredible results as a means of support to youth livelihoods: such initiatives are known to succeed when we put the dignity of the person at the center of our engagements - H.E. Domenico
Fornara, Ambassador of Italy.