ecoDesigns Textile Upcycled Product of the Week | Chakboard Erasers
Can you imagine pieces of clothes, papers and toilet paper are still being used to clean Chalkboards?
The Chalkboard Eraser (Blackboard Duster) Problem
In most schools in Cameroon, pupils and students use their hands, a piece of cloth or piece of paper or toilet paper to clean the chalkboard (Blackboard).
This has been happening for decades and every time students are called up to clean the blackboard, they put on a moron face because cleaning the board makes their hands dirty and soils the uniforms with chalk dust. The pieces of cloth or paper they use to clean the board always makes their classroom dirty and every day, they have to search for a new piece of paper or fabric to use to clean the board.
Why are most schools not having Chalkboard Erasers?
The chalkboard eraser crisis may be common in all most all Nursery, Primary, Secondary and High Schools in Cameroon and It will be surprising for you to know that even in some universities, students use their palms or pieces of toilet tissue, fabric or paper to clean the chalkboard. Why? When we checked in the market, we realized chalkboard erasers are expensive and sometimes cost about $2 - $5 with most of them being imported. At this cost, it’s very difficult for schools or teachers to purchase chalkboard erasers.
The Ecodesigns Chalkboard Eraser Solution
At @ecodesigns, we are crafting simple, effective and cheap chalkboard erasers from textile waste. 100% made from textile waste, five (05) of our chalkboard erasers weigh 2Ibs and cost $1. These are very cheap and very environmentally friendly because we are repurposing textile waste which could have been burned or ended up in the landfill to make products that are facilitating education in our country.
One of our goals is to train students and pupils in schools on how to craft these chalkboard eraser so that we can rapidly solve the chalkboard eraser crisis in our community.
Mindful of the fact that for every 1 pound of textile waste spared from disposal, 3 – 4 pounds of greenhouse gases are saved from the environment; @ecodesigns is saving 6 -10 pounds of green house gases for every 5 blackboard dusters they make.
So far, @ecodesigns is producing 25 chalkboard erasers every week and we are ready to fight and win the war against textile waste pollution.
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EcoDesigns is a textile recycling and fashion designing hub of The Greens (@thegreens) that trains young girls for FREE in Textile Recycling and Fashion Designing in a bid to reduce female unemployment, inequalities and poverty, promote female entrepreneurship, improve the health and wellbeing of orphans, prisoners and poor people via the donation of free clothes, as well as combat textile waste pollution and climate change.
It’s a branch of The Greens’ Waste Business Hub, a startup incubator that is training young and underprivileged youths to exploit the business opportunities available in the domain of waste, hence nurture a generation of Waste Business Entrepreneurs (Wastepreneurs). Waste Business Hub is currently educating and empowering youths in the recycling of tires, textile and plastic wastes.
EcoDesigns currently has 03 Training Directors and 13 female trainees who are learning fashion designing, embroidery and overlocking as well as how to transform textile trash into textile treasure.
Every week, the hub upcycles 50 pounds of textile waste in a bid to curb textile waste pollution and Climate Change.
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I love all the good work you are doing! This is another great idea, a way to simultaneously re-use waste product and provide a needed product given the local situation in schools. Much love - Carl
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Aahhh.. I remember when we learn to make our own chalk erasers years ago, when chalks and blackboards existed at every class rooms in achools, but nowadays in my country most svhools use whiteboards and some of the schools already use a digital boards too😐. Your project is really awesome, hope that more schools would buy this ecofriendly erasers, they can just wash it and re-use if the chalk-dust to thick, right!
thanks @cicisaja and more and more schools are begining to use our products and we hope to teach many young people to be able to make these erasers. White boards are very uncommon here in Cameroon and even at universities, they still use chalkboards.
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Great project. Not only are you recycling what others deem trash, the skills that you are teaching these young females may one day prove to be their meal ticket out of poverty. I'm so glad that I took the time to read this wonderful article, keep up the great work, it is inspiring.
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thanks @thebigsweed and together, we can take women end poverty among women and girls and promote women entrepreneurship. Thanks for the support