Intro

I am a British fashion design graduate keen to understand the world better, and gradually finding ways to use my creative skills in an international development context. I have spent 3 years working in Senegal, mainly on an organic fair trade cotton project - focussing on keeping some of the certified cotton in the country and processing it locally to create fair trade textiles products, rather than exporting the whole harvest as a raw material. From July 2010 I am spending a year in India through VSO - as communications associate at a youth NGO. You can find more detailed information on my work on my blog at http://lizcooper.blogspot.com.

Image: a warm welcome to a Mandinka village near Koussanar, Tambacounda region, Senegal.