Ruth Rogers

Lost Stock in Bangladesh

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Ruth

My story of hopefulness is an organisation called Lost stock. They were formed at the beginning of the pandemic, because when the pandemic was growing, 2 billion dollars worth of clothes were cancelled across the world. These clothes had been made already in countries like Bangladesh, China and India but the fashion labels just cancelled those order which meant that the people, mainly women who had made those clothes lost their jobs with received no pay for the work that they had done. Lost stock was created to try and help that situation, enable workers to be paid and prevent clothes from going into landfill. What they did was create boxes of up to three garments, made a website where you could tell this website whether you were into neutral colours or dark colours or bright colours. You put in your size, and also whether you like to wear baggy clothes or tight clothes and for 35 pounds for a box you got three tops in the post. Lost Stock worked with a foundation called the Sadija Foundation based in Dhaka in Bangladesh who have supported nearly 114,000 people. Lost Stock has recently been rebranded to Unfolded.

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