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- Ocean Sole - business began 2006 - recycling fliplops - 
- founder found a turtle that swallowed fliplops - 
- Mobilized women to collect fliplops from ocean & torn them to art pieces - 

Johnathan - as a carver joined the team to create art work -
- cleaning the environment & giving people livelihood
- 70 people - fully paid w/ employment benefits
- tried to make ma[[?]] but they were heavier & hotter when worn - did not work.

connection / [[strikethrough] [[[?]] [[/strikethrough]] link -

=> relationship - w/ African tradition => make something out of something that there (wood, clay - now it's trash.
- functioned or art

- carving traditionally done in [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] wood; now it is more environmentally friendly to use recyclables 

Transcription Notes:
got to be flipflops but missing second 'f'