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Calypso Rose, entrepreneur with a social conscience, initiates Pocket the Problem project.
A truly inspiring project organized by young entrepreneur Calypso Rose, founder of CLIPPYKIT and by Make your Mark. Yesterday evening saw the opening of the exhibition in London at City Hall. ‘Pocket the Problem‘ is the project that was set up to enable girls to explore the concept of fashion with a social conscience. 650 girls, all aged 14-15, formed teams to come up with a unique design using the Clippykit Bag to raise money and awareness about an issue of importance to them. The winning design was about gun and knife crime.
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Calypso Rose, only 27 years old, approached the Make your Mark foundation with her idea to tackle the negative image of teenagers and to assist teenagers in an entrepreneurial way with the Pocket the Problem project. The project was highly successful, with girls coming up with a diverse range of causes which they cared passionately about, such as forced marriage, re-cycling, teen pregnancy and social stereotyping. The exhibition showcases all bags made in the project.
Calypso Rose herself set up her business in 2003, by seling her first Clippykit Bags on Portobello Road. Her company has grown since then substantially with the development of many more products, distribution of her products through 300 independent shops and department stores in the UK and the launch of her website CLIPPYKIT.
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