Working in group helped me to grow
“With
the new regulation in place, we had to look for tailors and set up a workshop
place, this encouraged us to
look for more clients and my turn over increased up to 20%. Where I was working with 1 staff I have now
hired 4 more tailors.”
Patrick
Muhire
Inkanda House, belong to one of the
growing fashion designer “Patrick Muhire” he was working in isolation and
things were tough before joining the Nucleus fashion designer group in 2014,
This situation was preventing him from advancing.
“Most of us had that ego
of working alone and doing everything by your own, but now, we found out that
working together is easier and beneficial to all of us. For example, last year
in November 2015, we organized a fashion show and together as a group we got
many sponsors, we used the same models to show our creations and all cost were
shared.” He says.
With the group, Patrick benefited from
capacity building trainings and improved his skills on how to better manage his
business. benchmarking visits were
organized to other advanced fashion designers and they set up new regulation of
their profession. He
testifies that he learned a lot through benchmarking visit such as new ways of
organizing a workshop or tissues, he describes the time spend with the nucleus
group as beneficial as it helped him to be more creative, motivated and
organized.
Inkanda
house is now targeting mass production to take advantage of the new policy
banning the second hand clothes as a move to promote the locally made products.
