MAVERICK LIFE: DESIGN: Sheltersuit: a clever design for homeless people By Emilie Gambade
Fashion design always seemed in evidence. Bas Timmer, now 29, grew up in Enschede in the Netherlands, watching his mother as she worked in the textile business his grandparents had created and passed onto her.
A light backpack that transforms into a windproof coat with a large hood and integrated scarf, that also turns into a zip-up sleeping bag, “The Sheltersuit is made of donated fabrics from TenCate and donated sleeping bags from the community. We still use donated fabrics from TenCate and we now source sleeping bags from the largest festivals in the Netherlands, like LowLands ,” says Timmer.has handed out Sheltersuits in New York as well as to refugees of Sarajevo and at camps in Lesbos, Greece. The team then looked “into the possibility – and feasibility – of bringing Sheltersuit to South Africa”.
“During the visit, it turned out that they were running a skills centre to teach the residents skills to provide for themselves when they are back in the world outside. As part of the skills centre, they have a sewing studio which they offered for the production of the Shelterbags. This serves a dual purpose: creating jobs for formerly homeless people and alleviating the need of other homeless people sleeping in the street,” says Timmer.
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