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*UPDATE*
Thank you so much for your support! After more than six months of preparation, we finally made our way up to Jewel Children's Home in East Bali with a crew of 12 volunteers and 2000 Fabrix for our first major project: renovating a space to create a multipurpose room. What was supposed to be a 2-day trip turned out to be a week-long adventure, and we loved every second of it. Upon arrival, we realized that we had produced twice the amount of Fabrix from our initial calculations, but this actually enabled us to decorate the whole room rather than just two walls. A happy accident! In addition to creating our larger-than-expected mural, we:
- Installed new floor tiling and roofing
- Replaced the old doors
- Donated two sewing machines
- Held workshops teaching kids how to sew and create up-cycled garments
- Beach day and food!
Special thanks to Ibu Tina (founder of Jewel Children's Home) for touching the lives of Indra, Erik, and so many others and trusting us with her children and this beautiful space.
This is only a small step towards creating a more sustainable future from textile waste. If you would like to further support us on our journey to turn waste to worth, please continue to donate.
Big love from the island! Terima kasih...
- Eliot and Indra
*December 23, 2024*
"Hello! My name is Eliot Lee, and I’m a skateboarder and a third-year student at Cornell University studying Fashion Management.
I am fundraising to help my good friend Indra launch Fashion Offcut, a waste management solution dedicated to creating functional objects from fabric waste. I met Indra last summer, when I interned for Televisi Star, a skateboard apparel brand in Bali. What drew me to Televisi was its #THEREMUSTBENOWASTE initiative, which crafts one-of-a-kind pieces from fabric offcut waste.
Fashion Offcut’s mission is to transform fabric waste into functional objects, starting with “Fabrix” (fashion bricks). Over the past few months, Indra and I have worked tirelessly to develop our Fabrix, which are fire and water resistant, and significantly stronger than traditional clay bricks. Our aim is to collaborate with local orphanages to create housing for the community. This cause is personal for Indra and his mother, who once lived in a Jewel Children's Home – an orphanage in East Bali – themselves. It’s also how they met Erik, a young boy whom Indra taught to skate and who now works as Televisi’s inventory manager.
Our team is a close-knit circle of family and friends. Together, we’ve successfully created various types of bricks from our fabric waste and even crafted our first prototype door. So far, our project has been funded through our personal savings, and we need your help to launch Fashion Offcut.
With your generous donations, we will kickstart our company and complete our first major project: restoring and renovating Jewel Children's Home – a place that has touched the lives of more than 300 orphans over the years. As a first step, we hope to create a multipurpose room where the children can play, create, and study indoors, protected from the heat and rain (during rainy season). This will require:
- Expanding our workshop/factory space
- Hiring laborers to install roofing and flooring
- Creating a mural from Fabrix to decorate the multipurpose room and teach the children about creative ways to recycle through workshops
- Purchasing the resources necessary to do so: water-based glue for the Fabrix, customized iron molds, industrial mixer, an additional hydraulic press machine
Our dreams reach beyond recycling the textile waste from Televisi. We envision Fashion Offcut as a sustainable solution for garment factories across Bali with the ambition to expand our impact throughout Southeast Asia, creating housing as well as collaborating with Indonesian artists to make installations, furniture, and skate obstacles.
Thank you for supporting our mission. Together, we can turn waste to worth."
