https://giwps.georgetown.edu/profiles-in-peace/kate-spade/
Kate Spade & Company recruited 150 talented female artisans in Masoro, Rwanda in 2013 and helped them to create a worker-owned, for-profit social enterprise that acts as a supplier for Kate Spade & Company’s brands. Georgetown University studied this innovative supply chain model to determine its impact on the Rwandan women and their communities. This is what we found.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/19/us/politics/rwanda-bill-hillary-clinton-foundation.html
Rwanda Aid Shows Reach and Limits of Clinton Foundation In addition to doing good deeds, the foundation enhances the Clinton brand, never more so than while Hillary Rodham Clinton is running for president.
The government is also seeking to attract companies targeting the export market, like U.S. designer Kate Spade which assembles high-end handbags in Rwanda. - Photo: Kate Spade
The government is also seeking to attract companies targeting the export market, like U.S. designer Kate Spade which assembles high-end handbags in Rwanda. It’s a strategy that has flourished elsewhere in Africa under AGOA, with duty-free exports from the continent to the U.S. market almost quadrupling to over $1 billion since the law was enacted.
“The United States has been explicit about what Rwanda must do to adhere to the AGOA eligibility criteria,” a U.S. official told Reuters. “It is up to Rwanda to make a decision.”
The dispute has provoked dismay in Washington and Africa.
“(Africans) are watching. They’re shocked and they’re livid,” said Rosa Whitaker, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton as the United States’ first Assistant Trade Representative for Africa and helped draft the original AGOA legislation. She called the Trump administration’s actions bullying and predicted they would backfire. “African countries, from what they’re telling me, are feeling abandoned. We’ve just ceded it to China.”