Episode #56: Interview with Grace Habib of Shop Refugee July 14, 2022
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Show Notes
- Grace Habib of Shop Refugee part of GoTen
- Grace started as an English teacher with GoTen
- Seamstress volunteers wanted to start Sewing class started 2021
- Grace shifted from English teaching to running Shop Refugee full time
- Stared by rebranded Shop Refugee
- Expanded classes and has its own workshop (20 person max)
- Loving Covers helped out with material donations in the beginning
- Sourcing material locally
- City Serve (Amazon, Walmart, and CostCo returns)
- Sheer fabric = Scrunchy
- Mesh netting = produce bags
- Environmentally friendly process
- 95% of sales goes to seamstress
- Business owners now coming to Shop Refugee for seamstresses
- Noggin Boss
- Seamstresses are contract working and can work at home at their pace
- Bead trade of Murano
- Welcome Cookie!
- Grace rents out her wedding arch and a mogul is born!
- Grace's marketing side hustle
- We need to support more refugees
- Parolees from Afganistan
- Refugee is a legal status
- Spread the world!
- The Rock as the model
- Requests welcome!
- Sewing machines are awesome
- Farmer's markets
- World Refugee Day Phoenix College
- Retail stores:
- Cultivate coffee
- Gather Phoenix
- SBC Book Store
- Phoenix eats batteries and tires!
- Success stories from the class
- Rapha House
- Donations (fabric and thread)!
- Aug 18 - Meeting for volunteers
- Insha'Allah