Budu Fashion Line

BUDU is sustainable development meets urban chic, it is fashion with a conscience, connecting women across continents.

How it Started

BUDU is a fair trade fashion initiative that empowers vulnerable women on the Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana. Designed and directed by co-founders Anna Bjerknes, Lizzie Glaeser, and Camilla Hermann, BUDU began to give immediate business to the struggling vocational schools on the camp. By commissioning the women to create clothing, jewelry and other accessories at fair trade wages, BUDU meets the desperate need for income-providing jobs on Buduburam. The products are a design collaboration of innovative US urban styles and the refugee women's ideas.

Fashion Funding Change

100% of BUDU proceeds go to the Buduburam Kitchen Project.The Buduburam Kitchen Project will feed and educate these vulnerable single mothers and their children. By connecting communities across continents the founders hope to create sustainable, positive change. BUDU is the most tangible part of this process. Each BUDU sale is an opportunity to spread awareness about the refugee's condition and lend agency to a marginalized population who has been silenced in the international community.