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Eight children rescued from leather seating factory

Published: January 24, 2022

Eight children have been rescued from a factory producing two-wheeler seat covers in the Falaknuma region of the city of Hyderabad.

Leather Naturally creates children’s cartoon explaining origins of leathermaking

Published: April 14, 2021

Leather Naturally has created a cartoon for children that explains the origins of leather making, placing focus on how the industry upcycles a by-product which is made into a wide range of articles used in everyday life.

Recycled footwear project targets poor children

Published: August 7, 2020

An Egyptian entrepreneur has developed a manufacturing project that seeks to supply affordable sportswear and footwear made from recycled materials, including leather, for children from poor backgrounds.

South African tannery donates footwear to school children

Published: December 14, 2018

The donation was aimed at children from underprivileged communities who are entering primary schooling for the first time in 2019.

Walking to school, without sneakers

Published: May 9, 2018

I was told the other day that in some of the top London departmental stores more than half the footwear sold are trainers, or more precisely, sneakers. Toffler was right when he said that the “future happens faster than you expect, and in the wrong order” as it feels only yesterday when we had leather shoes and we had plimsolls with a green flash, and little else beyond Wellington boots and work boots.

Leather sector representatives open community school

Published: July 28, 2017

Inaugurated on July 26, the community primary school situated on the outskirts of Dhaka is to cater for children whose parents work in the leather sector.

Satra offers lead detection test on children’s footwear

Published: June 13, 2016

The UK based research and technology centre, Satra, is offering a test service on materials and components to clarify whether or not they comply with the new EU Regulation, which intends to protect the general public from exposure to lead by limiting the total amount found in articles such as children’s footwear.

Satra improves testing of children’s footwear

Published: May 16, 2016

The UK based research and technology centre has improved its laboratory equipment to precisely assess children's footwear for thermo regularity.

Damaged bund causes tannery effluent pollution

Published: May 18, 2015

Damage caused to the bund in Moongil Kulam, a rural irrigation tank at Ponnimandurai Pudhupatti in Tamil Nadu has led to an alleged discharge of a large volume of tannery effluents that entered local villages and have raised concerns over health in a cluster of villages in Dindigul district.

Child labour found at leather goods factory

Published: August 25, 2014

Agripada police in the Mumbai area, August 23 rescued eight minors from a leather goods factory in Madanpura in Byculla and arrested the three owners of the factory.