Episode #56: Interview with Grace Habib of Shop Refugee

SHOW NOTES

 - Grace Habib of Shop Refugee part of GoTen

 - Grace started as an English teacher with GoTen

 - Seamstress volunteers wanted to start Sewing class started 2021

 - Grace shifted from English teaching to running Shop Refugee full time

 - Stared by rebranded Shop Refugee

 - Expanded classes and has its own workshop (20 person max)

 - Loving Covers helped out with material donations in the beginning

 - Sourcing material locally

 - City Serve (Amazon, Walmart, and CostCo returns)

 - Sheer fabric = Scrunchy

 - Mesh netting = produce bags

 - Environmentally friendly process

 - 95% of sales goes to seamstress

 - Business owners now coming to Shop Refugee for seamstresses

 - Noggin Boss

 - Seamstresses are contract working and can work at home at their pace

 - Bead trade of Murano

 - Welcome Cookie!

 - Grace rents out her wedding arch and a mogul is born!

 - Grace's marketing side hustle

 - We need to support more refugees

 - Parolees from Afghanistan

 - Refugee is a legal status

 - Spread the world!

 - The Rock as the model

 - Requests welcome!

 - Sewing machines are awesome

 - Farmer's markets

 - World Refugee Day Phoenix College

 - Retail stores:

 - - Cultivate coffee

 - - Gather Phoenix

 - - SBC Book Store

 - Phoenix eats batteries and tires!

 - Success stories from the class

 - Rapha House

 - Donations (fabric and thread)!

 - Aug 18 - Meeting for volunteers

 - Insha'Allah