Upcycled materials: Afghan refugee and designer-maker Fariba Amini makes bags and jewellery from recycled materials at her studio in Athens, Greece. — Reuters
BENT over a sewing machine, Fariba Amini stitches her latest design using the unlikeliest of fabrics: a sheet from a discarded rubber dinghy, like the one that brought her and thousands more refugees to Greece.
The Afghan fled to Greece in 2016 with no documents and few prospects. Now she makes and sells bags and jewellery out of the starkest symbol of Europe’s refugee crisis: the boats and life-jackets once strewn across Greece’s shores.
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