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Dibella increases purchase of Cotton made in Africa Cotton (c) Martin Kielmann/Cotton made in Africa
08.01.2024

Dibella increases purchase of Cotton made in Africa Cotton

  • Dibella increases the use of Cotton made in Africa cotton according to the mass balance system from 300,000kg in 2023 to 750,000kg in 2024.

With Cotton made in Africa (CmiA), Dibella is making its business model even more sustainable. This enables the company to minimise its environmental impact and support the people in the growing regions. Dibella relies on the CmiA mass balance system in the chain to achieve its corporate goal of "increasing the use of sustainable fibres".

  • Dibella increases the use of Cotton made in Africa cotton according to the mass balance system from 300,000kg in 2023 to 750,000kg in 2024.

With Cotton made in Africa (CmiA), Dibella is making its business model even more sustainable. This enables the company to minimise its environmental impact and support the people in the growing regions. Dibella relies on the CmiA mass balance system in the chain to achieve its corporate goal of "increasing the use of sustainable fibres".

Cotton made in Africa initiative is an internationally recognised standard for sustainable cotton grown by African smallholder farmers. With up to 13% less greenhouse gas emissions, CmiA-verified cotton has a significantly lower impact on the environment than the global average and also supports village communities in Africa beyond sustainable cotton cultivation. CmiA supports smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa in the sustainable cultivation of genetically unmodified cotton and is committed to improving working conditions in ginning factories. Through a licence fee, which is paid by customers like Dibella, the farmers receive training and access to operating resources in order to reduce the use of pesticides and increase the quality of their cotton and yields from their fields at the same time.

Cotton made in Africa takes a pragmatic approach to the processing of its cotton with two different models in order to best meet the demands for transparency and feasibility in the chain: The Hard Identity Preserved System and the Mass Balance System; Dibella has opted for the latter. While CmiA-verified cotton is always traded separately from other cotton right up to the spinning mill and can therefore be traced seamlessly from the growing region to the ginning plant to the spinning mill, the mass balance system allows CmiA cotton to be mixed with cotton of other origins at the spinning mill level as long as a balance between cotton purchases and CmiA-labelled yarns is ensured. This principle ensures the purchase of sustainably grown fibres and helps Dibella to bring a larger quantity of sustainable cotton into its textile cycle, which ultimately benefits smallholder farmers.

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Dibella GmbH

Fertiger Brunnen in Namare Foto GoodTextiles Stiftung
28.09.2023

GoodTextiles Stiftung und Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) bauen Brunnen

Im Jahr 2016 hat das Textilunternehmen Dibella die GoodTextiles Stiftung mit dem Ziel gegründet, textile Wertschöpfungsketten nachhaltiger zu gestalten. Sie wirbt Spendengelder ein und setzt eigene Förderprojekte um, die Menschen in allen Stufen der Textilwirtschaft zugutekommen sollen. Nun hat die Stiftung erneut ein von Cotton made in Africa (Hamburg) initiiertes Vorhaben in Subsahara-Afrika unterstützt. Gefördert wurden drei Dörfer in Togo, die nach einer Analyse der landeseigenen und in das Projekt involvierte Baumwollgesellschaft Nouvelle Société Cotonnière du Togo (NSCT) keinen direkten Zugang zu Trinkwasser hatten.
 
Die Anbaugebiete der dürreresistenten Baumwolle von CmiA liegen unter anderem im Norden und im Landesinneren Togos, wo die Baumwollbauern aufgrund langanhaltender Trockenperioden besonders von den Auswirkungen des Klimawandels betroffen sind. In zahlreichen Dorfgemeinschaften fehlt der Zugang zu sauberem Trinkwasser, die Menschen schöpfen verunreinigtes Wasser aus weiter entfernten Flüssen oder Wasserlöchern und transportieren die schwere Fracht mühsam zurück.  
 

Im Jahr 2016 hat das Textilunternehmen Dibella die GoodTextiles Stiftung mit dem Ziel gegründet, textile Wertschöpfungsketten nachhaltiger zu gestalten. Sie wirbt Spendengelder ein und setzt eigene Förderprojekte um, die Menschen in allen Stufen der Textilwirtschaft zugutekommen sollen. Nun hat die Stiftung erneut ein von Cotton made in Africa (Hamburg) initiiertes Vorhaben in Subsahara-Afrika unterstützt. Gefördert wurden drei Dörfer in Togo, die nach einer Analyse der landeseigenen und in das Projekt involvierte Baumwollgesellschaft Nouvelle Société Cotonnière du Togo (NSCT) keinen direkten Zugang zu Trinkwasser hatten.
 
Die Anbaugebiete der dürreresistenten Baumwolle von CmiA liegen unter anderem im Norden und im Landesinneren Togos, wo die Baumwollbauern aufgrund langanhaltender Trockenperioden besonders von den Auswirkungen des Klimawandels betroffen sind. In zahlreichen Dorfgemeinschaften fehlt der Zugang zu sauberem Trinkwasser, die Menschen schöpfen verunreinigtes Wasser aus weiter entfernten Flüssen oder Wasserlöchern und transportieren die schwere Fracht mühsam zurück.  
 
Im Rahmen des Gemeinschaftsprojekts der GoodTextiles Stiftung, der Aid by Trade Foundation (Inhaberin des CmiA-Standards) und der NSCT haben Namare/Puob-n-kpaad, Tchokoroko und Aloba eine eigene Wasserversorgung erhalten. Mit den Geldern – 10.190 Euro seitens der GoodTextiles Stiftung, 3.831 Euro von der Baumwollgesellschaft– wurde in jedem Dorf ein mit Handpumpen betriebener Brunnen errichtet. Die Bauarbeiten sind mittlerweile abgeschlossen und die 2.300 Bewohner in sogenannten WASH-Schulungen in Grundlagen zum Umgang mit Wasser, zur Vorbeugung von Krankheiten sowie in Hygienemaßnahmen unterrichtet worden.
 
Dank der neuen Brunnen haben die Bewohner nun unbeschränkten Zugang zu sauberem Wasser, das sie zum Trinken und Kochen verwenden können. Dies verringert die Häufigkeit von Durchfallerkrankungen, insbesondere bei Kindern, erheblich. Darüber hinaus kann das Wasser für die persönliche Hygiene und das Waschen der Kleidung verwendet werden, was das Auftreten von Hautkrankheiten mindert. War die Beschaffung von Wasser bisher mit langen Märschen und damit einhergehender Ermüdung und Schmerzen beim Wassertragen, insbesondere bei Frauen, verbunden, profitieren die Bewohner nun von den kurzen Wegen zu den direkt in ihren Dörfern erbauten Brunnen.

Source:

GoodTextiles Stiftung

© Aid by Trade Foundation
16.03.2023

The GoodTextiles Foundation and Cotton made in Africa join forces again

  • Precious water for villages that are running on dry land

The GoodTextiles Foundation has worked to improve drinking water supplies in sub-Saharan Africa in another joint project with Cotton made in Africa (CmiA). In three villages in Togo particularly affected by climate change, the partners built wells and trained people in the use of water. The curriculum included the topics of disease prevention, hygiene and health care.

In 2016, the textile company Dibella (Bocholt) established the GoodTextiles Foundation with the aim of making textile value chains more sustainable. It raises funds and implements its own support projects to benefit people at all stages of the textile industry. Now the foundation has once again supported a project in sub-Saharan Africa initiated by Cotton made in Africa (Hamburg). Funding is being provided for three villages in Togo that, according to a needs assessment by CmiA's local partner, the cotton company Nouvelle Société Cotonnière du Togo (NSCT), have no direct access to drinking water.

  • Precious water for villages that are running on dry land

The GoodTextiles Foundation has worked to improve drinking water supplies in sub-Saharan Africa in another joint project with Cotton made in Africa (CmiA). In three villages in Togo particularly affected by climate change, the partners built wells and trained people in the use of water. The curriculum included the topics of disease prevention, hygiene and health care.

In 2016, the textile company Dibella (Bocholt) established the GoodTextiles Foundation with the aim of making textile value chains more sustainable. It raises funds and implements its own support projects to benefit people at all stages of the textile industry. Now the foundation has once again supported a project in sub-Saharan Africa initiated by Cotton made in Africa (Hamburg). Funding is being provided for three villages in Togo that, according to a needs assessment by CmiA's local partner, the cotton company Nouvelle Société Cotonnière du Togo (NSCT), have no direct access to drinking water.

Difficult water procurement
The areas where CmiA's drought-resistant cotton is grown include the north and interior of Togo, where cotton farmers are particularly affected by the effects of climate change due to prolonged periods of drought. Many village communities lack access to clean drinking water, and people draw contaminated water from more distant rivers or waterholes and carry the heavy load back with difficulty.

Guide to clean water
As part of a joint project between the GoodTextiles Foundation, Aid by Trade Foundation (holder of the CmiA standard) and NSCT, three drought-affected villages - Namare/Puob-n-kpaad, Tchokoroko and Aloba - will now receive their own water supply.

The funds - 11,756 euros will be provided by the GoodTextiles Foundation, and 4,419 euros will come from the Cotton Society - will be used to construct a well operated by hand pumps in each village. The construction work is to be completed by March 2023 and the 2,300 inhabitants will be taught the basics of water handling, disease prevention and hygiene measures in so-called WASH training courses.

Driving force: UN SDGs
For years, we have aligned our company with the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals for Sustainable Development). Through the sponsorship project, we are not only contributing to SDG 6 "Clean water and sanitation", but also to gender equality (SDG 5). In the African countries from which we source CmiA cotton, the physically strenuous task of procuring water is still the responsibility of women. The construction of the wells now leads to a significant improvement of their living situation," reports Ralf Hellmann, managing director of Dibella and chairman of the foundation.

Continued under their own responsibility
Once the wells have been handed over to the village communities, "water committees" will take over their management and maintenance, as well as responsibility for further hygiene training for the residents. The operation of the wells will be financed on the basis of a fund made up of small contributions from the beneficiary communities.

Source:

The GoodTextiles Foundation