A fourth-year chemical engineering student in Indonesia has provided some Indonesian women in West Java a new career as seamstresses for a not-so-ordinary garment factory. Unlike conventional textile companies, they use waste patchwork from other textile companies to make dresses and bags. The student, Vincentius Dito Krista Holanda, is one of numerous Asian youths who want to apply their knowledge and do something change the way developing countries use natural resources. Tired of seeing unmanaged and wasted textile refuse, he started collecting them and formed a company this year that hired women in two villages to sew and market the products.
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