Dirty Girls Of Lesvos Island

Dirty Girls Of Lesvos Island DG works with women who are part of refugee and marginalised groups, including women in the refugee LGBT community.

Dirty Girls trains women in the art of creative bag making, using leftover fabrics from costume making in the entertainment industry to make individually designed bags-working with women with a refugee background, including women in the LGBT community. At the Dirty Girls Studio, women are trained in the art of creative bag making with quality fabrics from costume making in TV and film productions,

and material from discarded life jackets. DG is a humanitarian and environmental organisation focused on well being through creativity while upcycling materials that may end up in landfill. Dirty Girls was initiated in 2015 on the Greek island of Lesvos, pioneering the simple environmental practice of washing used materials in humanitarian aid; rather than the trashing and replacing policy of large NGOs and governmental agencies. Discarded lifejackets were upcycled into bags.
60,000 tons of material was saved from landfill.

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Wash It Instead

Dirty Girls is proud to be pioneering the use of the simple environmental practice of washing used materials in humanitarian relief efforts: with the vision that it will become the status quo for the larger international humanitarian agencies and refugee host governments. Dirty Girls washes (to hospital standards), blankets, sleeping bags, clothing and other materials so that they can be reused, rather than the present practices of International Non Government Organisations (INGOs) – the cavalier trashing of all materials and replacement with new ones. Each blanket could be washed at our laundries at least 20 times without deterioration if NGOs and government bodies would redirect their focus to an environmental imperative. Trashing leads to environmental degradation while the financial cost to donors and taxpayers is twice as much as necessary. So far, Dirty Girls, with the financial help of donors from all over the world, has saved over 600 tons of material from landfill.