Upcoming- Fashion Revolution Week

Fashion Revolution week happens every year in the period surrounding the 24th April. This date is the anniversary of the 2013 Rana Plaza factory collapse. Rana Plaza, a building in Bangladesh, housed a number of garment factories, employing around 5,000 people. The people in this building were manufacturing clothing for many of the biggest global fashion brands. More than 1,100 people died in the collapse and another 2,500 were injured, making it the fourth largest industrial disaster in history. The victims were mostly young women. 

 Members of the TY GCE class will be running awareness raising activities between 19th-25th April in school.  These will focus on the human and environmental cost of ‘fast fashion’.  They will be urging to ask who made our clothes and what were the working conditions for the employees.  They’ll also be challenging us to think before we buy in order to cut the huge quantity of garments that end up in landfill after hardly being worn. 

This activity was part of the school’s commitment to cross curricular global citizenship education, supported by World Wise Global Schools.