(659k) DTRT Fact Sheet
DTRT Apparel, located in Ghana’s capital, Accra, is West Africa’s largest apparel manufacturer and exporter. DTRT Apparel currently employs more than 2,500 employees; about 80% of them are women mainly from low-income households with little or no skills. DTRT has assembled a team of 35 expat managers from over 8 countries with hundreds of years of combined apparel factory management experience to transfer skills and knowledge to our local employees.
Our own leading sustainability standard, “Do The Right Thing”, establishes higher social compliance standards than the industry norm or the country’s legal minimum. At DTRT, we firmly uphold workers’ safety, fair salary, and health care as factors that cannot be negotiated or manipulated for financial gain. For more, please visit www.dtrtapparel.com
USAID supported DTRT Apparel with a $250,000 grant for the purchase of equipment, materials, factory labor/overhead and capital cost. The material, machinery and freight costs were extremely inflated during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Last updated: October 15, 2021
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