Former banker Peter Kweku Anowie left his corporate career to pursue eco-fashion. Alongside his former schoolmate, he co-founded Koliko Wear, a company that crafts shoes using repurposed materials.
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00:00If you want to buckle my shoe, I welcome you to another episode of my awesome.
00:07Today, we are diving into the world of creativity and sustainability.
00:12And guess what? I'm live in Takuradi at Koliko Uwe.
00:17I will be learning how to use recycled
00:20materials to make a shoe like this. Are you guys ready for this?
00:25Let's go there.
00:27I'm Peter Kweku Anori, the founder and the CEO of Koliko Uwe.
00:31This is my hustle.
00:33Mr. Peter P.
00:36Samson.
00:38Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, man.
00:40All right, without wasting your time,
00:41what does it take to be an eco-friendly shoemaker?
00:45What it takes to be an eco-friendly shoemaker, Samson,
00:48I want you to learn it practically.
00:50So from here, I'll take you around, then we'll move to the workshop.
00:53And do you think it's something I can learn in a day?
00:55A smart guy like you partnering with Koliko, everything is possible.
00:59We are going to grab a few raw materials that we will use in making our shoe.
01:03Almost 20 million tons are being dumped in Africa every year.
01:08Are you serious?
01:09A lot of them come to town.
01:10Wow.
01:11And most of the time we are not able to consume all.
01:14What kind of shoe are we making today?
01:16So today we are making jeans shoes.
01:19So Koliko jeans shoes, like the one you are wearing.
01:21So we will grab edges.
01:23And also we will grab a textile sheet that we will use to do our lining.
01:29Peter, are we done?
01:30No, we are not done.
01:31I want to take you to one dump site so that you know the reason for
01:35really coming to the market to help rescue this material before it's too late.
01:40The reason why Koliko started with what we are doing is because of this.
01:45You can see the whole land, the whole parcel of land here is destroyed by the waste we make.
01:50We try to rescue the textile waste by visiting the second-hand clothing market
01:56to buy the worst one there before they end up coming there.
02:00You are my apprentice, if you have to pick one.
02:01If I have to pick it, because you are going to cut them.
02:03Wow, I can make a shoe out of it.
02:06Where are we going next?
02:07From here, we are driving straight to the workshop.
02:10Because you are making pair, pair means two.
02:13So if you trace or if you mark one, you are supposed to mark it two.
02:18You get it so that you can get the left and the right.
02:21Am I doing it right?
02:22Perfect.
02:23Good.
02:24The next process is the gluing process.
02:27So gluing.
02:28So we are going to glue the inside.
02:31Because after, when you make the shoe, this place would come out.
02:34Journey of a thousand miles.
02:36To begin with, a sole.
02:39And not just a good sole, but a sustainable sole.
02:42So a sustainable sole that we are using is car tie.
02:44One may ask, why car tie?
02:46As we went to the downfield, you saw how the ties were being disposed.
02:51And all these things too, they take longer years before they decay.
02:55So we thought it was, why don't we use car tie?
02:58Cut it into pieces like you can see.
03:01Luzon, you were once a banker.
03:03How do you move from banking to shoemaking?
03:06I traveled out.
03:07I came back to Takrade, Western region.
03:10I met an old friend who was already into shoemaking, who was folding up.
03:14So I thought it was, why don't I partner
03:17with the little resource that I've gathered from bankers.
03:20And this step, now the sole has been glued, the upper part too has been glued.
03:24We are just supposed to fix it together.
03:26Correct. Correct.
03:27Let me just put it on.
03:29OK.
03:31Gently.
03:32Densely.
03:36And now we take it to the machine and press it.
03:40So with a presser, it can direct you.
03:44Exactly my size.
03:46I love this.
03:47Thank you very much, Paulis.
03:49Thank you very much.
03:49And so much, Rachel, man.
03:51And thank you very much for this gift.
03:52You're welcome.
03:53Who could have thought that a beautiful shoe
03:56such as this can come out of trashed materials?