Mitumba

What happens when you give your second-hand clothes for African charity? That is beginning of big business, its start of Mitumba.

The story of a T-shirt… about how it travelled from the north to the south of the world. It's the inside-out story of a piece of clothing's first and second life and everything that happens in between. The tale is told by the people involved in the second-hand clothes trade and by the thoughts of a traveller. He starts out from Hamburg, shadowing a T-shirt that belonged to Felix, a 10 year-old football fan. Four months later he arrives in Tanzania, at the village of Ilambilole. Along the way he encounters an incredible number of people who had something to do with the T-shirt and whose livelihoods revolve around the buying and selling of second-hand clothes and shoes: wholesalers, retailers, transporters, sorters…until it reached 9 year-old Lucky, another football fan with a passion for T-shirts that have a number on the back. Gradually personal stories and unusual places create the patchwork of "the second-hand road", a charitable-commercial journey with a strong impact on the people involved.