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"The old maxim &amp;quot;One man&amp;#39;s trash is another man&amp;#39;s treasure&amp;quot; has never been truer than with Fashion. love, Africa, a line of hot handbags that give even the eco-chicest chick permission to tote plastic bags around, because they&amp;#39;re made entirely from post consumer waste...and they&amp;#39;re breathing brand new life into an impoverished community in Africa.\nPinterestFacebookThe Gioto garbage slum in Kenya is home to more than 140 families and 300 children, most of whom are single mothers or grandmothers and victims of rape, HIV, or abuse. Their daily food, their shelter, and their clothing are all gathered from the slum&amp;#39;s refuse piles--and now, so is their income. Fashion. love, Africa enlists a group of Gioto women to weave totes out of discarded plastic bags found in the slum, providing them with a steady income and giving new life to garbage that would otherwise take 500+ years to decompose (plastic bags are already banned in many places thanks to their eco-unfriendly composition). Each bag is washed, dried, turned into a yarn, woven into the bags, then thoroughly cleansed and shipped off for sale.\nThe most personal part? Each bag is named after a woman in the slum who weaves them! They cost $50, and $10 from each sale is donated back to benefit the entire community. Oh, and did we mention Rachel Bilson and Kristen Bell are both fans!? Check out the full line of Fashion. love, Africa bags now at their website and score yours for toting to the beach all summer long. What do you gals think? Isn&amp;#39;t this a pretty unique take on both charity and environmentalism? Will you support this worthy cause? Discuss!\nPLUS...\n\nTOMS launches sunglasses, gives the gift of sight\n\nAND!\n\nCurves For Change: One way fashion models are giving back\n\nMore Ways to Get Glamour:\nNEW! Now You Can Read Glamour on Flipboard!\nGet the latest fashion updates via Twitter on @glamour_fashion\nCheck our chic Tumblr!\nRead Glamour magazine on your iPad&amp;#8212;print subscribers, it&amp;#39;s now part of your subscription plan!\nLike freebies? Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes!\nSign up for our fashion and beauty newsletters to get easy style tips (it&amp;#39;ll make your inbox 10x sexier, we promise).\nAnd, did you know you can read glamour.com on your smart phone?! It&amp;#39;s the ultimate boredom buster.\nPhotos: courtesy of Fashion. love, Africa\nWant even more STF? Follow us on Twitter!\nLatest Tweets!\nFollow us on Twitter!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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