T-shirt travels the story of secondhand clothes & Third World debt

What happens to all those old clothes brought to the Salvation Army or Goodwill Industries? This comprehensive program is about Third World debt and secondhand clothes. The filmmaker travelled to Zambia and was amazed to find almost everyone wearing Calvin Klein, MTV and James Dean t -shirts! Huge bales of American secondhand clothing are sold to African importers, putting the African manufacturers out of business. A secondhand clothing dealer in Zambia carefully selects a bale and transports it by bus ten hours to a market. His profits support his entire extended family.

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"What happens to all those old clothes brought to the Salvation Army or Goodwill Industries? This comprehensive program is about Third World debt and secondhand clothes. The filmmaker travelled to Zambia and was amazed to find almost everyone wearing Calvin Klein, MTV and James Dean t -shirts! Huge bales of American secondhand clothing are sold to African importers, putting the African manufacturers out of business. A secondhand clothing dealer in Zambia carefully selects a bale and transports it by bus ten hours to a market. His profits support his entire extended family."@en
"A comprehensive program about Third World debt and showing how secondhand clothes donated to charities in America eventually are sold in Zambia."
"What happens to all those old clothes you bring to the Salvation Army or Goodwill Industries? This comprehensive program is about Third World debt and secondhand clothes. The filmmaker travelled to Zambia and was amazed to find almost everyone wearing Calvin Klein, MTV and James Dean t-shirts! Huge bales of American secondhand clothing are sold to African importers, putting the African manufacturers out of business."
"What happens to all those old clothes you bring to the Salvation Army or Goodwill Industries? This comprehensive program is about Third World debt and secondhand clothes. The filmmaker travelled to Zambia and was amazed to find almost everyone wearing Calvin Klein, MTV and James Dean t-shirts! Huge bales of American secondhand clothing are sold to African importers, putting the African manufacturers out of business."@en
"This comprehensive program is about Third World debt and secondhand clothes. The filmmaker travelled to Zambia and was amazed to find almost everyone wearing Calvin Klein, MTV and James Dean t-shirts! Huge bales of American secondhand clothing are sold to African importers, putting the African manufacturers out of business."
"Documentaire. Qu'advient-il de nos vieux vêtements que l'on donne si généreusement à l'Armée du Salut? Ce documentaire traite de l'industrie du vêtement d'occasion et des pays en voie de développement. En parcourant la Zambie, le réalisateur a été étonné de voir ses habitants vêtus de t-shirts Clavin Klein, MTV ou à l'éffigie de James Dean. C'est que d'énormes ballots de vêtements d'occasion provenant des pays riches sont vendus à prix dérisoire à des grossistes africains, qui eux-même s'en débarrasent auprès des détaillants. C'est qu'il y a une dizaine d?années, le gouvernement a commencé à ouvrir l?économie de la Zambie au commerce extérieur en échange de prêts consentis par des bailleurs de fonds internationaux. Des tonnes de vêtements d?occasion bon marché ont alors inondé le pays, pratiquement exemptés de tout droit de douane. C?est ainsi que l?industrie textile a pratiquement disparu en Zambie, incapable de concurrencer les prix et la qualité des produits fabriqués dans les industries des pays riches."
"What happens to all those old clothes brought to the Salvation Army or Goodwill Industries? This comprehensive program is about Third World debt and secondhand clothes. The filmmaker traveled to Zambia and was amazed to find almost everyone wearing Calvin Klein, MTV and James Dean t-shirts! Huge bales of American secondhand clothing are sold to African importers, putting the African manufacturers out of business. Experts discuss the history of colonialism, slavery and the depletion of Africa's natural resources. They draw the connection between this shameful legacy and the current huge debt, African government debt service, and the IMF/World Bank policy known as "structural adjustment lending," wherein people's benefits are slashed drastically, resulting in terrible suffering from malnutrition, poor healthcare, inadequate schools, and a crumbling infra-structure."
"What happens to all those old clothes brought to the Salvation Army or Goodwill Industries? This comprehensive program is about Third World debt and secondhand clothes. The filmmaker traveled to Zambia and was amazed to find almost everyone wearing Calvin Klein, MTV and James Dean t-shirts! Huge bales of American secondhand clothing are sold to African importers, putting the African manufacturers out of business. Experts discuss the history of colonialism, slavery and the depletion of Africa's natural resources. They draw the connection between this shameful legacy and the current huge debt, African government debt service, and the IMF/World Bank policy known as "structural adjustment lending," wherein people's benefits are slashed drastically, resulting in terrible suffering from malnutrition, poor healthcare, inadequate schools, and a crumbling infra-structure."@en
"Relata el viatge que realitzen les samarretes velles dels països rics d'Amèrica del Nord o d'Europa fins a arribar a Zàmbia, on s'han convertit en una de les fonts de subsistència per a bona part de la població."
"The story of secondhand clothes and third world debt in Zambia. One may ask, how does secondhand clothing, given away as charity in western world, end up in Zambia? By sharing the lives of those that trade and sell these clothes, T-shirt travels explores the underlying reasons why so many Africans remain in poverty."