{"id":49118,"date":"2026-11-05T11:34:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T10:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/inside-the-or-foundations-plans-to-overhaul-kantamanto-market\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T11:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T10:34:52","slug":"inside-the-or-foundations-plans-to-overhaul-kantamanto-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/inside-the-or-foundations-plans-to-overhaul-kantamanto-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside The Or Foundation\u2019s Plans to Overhaul Kantamanto Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/what-the-kantamanto-market-fire-means-for-sustainable-fashion\">a devastating fire<\/a> broke out at Ghana\u2019s Kantamanto Market, burning around 60% of the market to ashes and wiping out thousands of livelihoods in the process. It wasn\u2019t the first fire at Kantamanto Market, and it might not be the last.<\/p>\n<p>One of the world\u2019s largest circular fashion ecosystems, Kantamanto Market is a vibrant tangle of upcyclers, secondhand retailers, and other market traders, bursting with creativity. But it\u2019s also an informal economy with limited guardrails around safety. Food is prepared on open fires right next door to where highly flammable, polyester textile waste is sorted, all the while some of the market\u2019s fashion traders still use coal-fired irons, because they can\u2019t afford electricity. Despite an extensive electrification project as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/how-kantamanto-market-is-rebuilding\">the rebuilding efforts<\/a>, 40% of the market is still supplied with unsafe, bare-wire electrical connections, turning even the most basic fans and lighting into fire hazards. Plus, the lanes between stalls are so narrow that bales of used clothing is transported via headcarrying rather than trolleys \u2014\u00a0firefighters have no hope of fitting fire engines inside, and without access to running water, even fire hoses are a logistical no.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/inside-the-or-foundations-plans-to-overhaul-kantamanto-market\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2025, a devastating fire broke out at Ghana\u2019s Kantamanto Market, burning around 60% of the market to ashes and wiping out thousands of livelihoods in the process. It wasn\u2019t the first fire at Kantamanto Market, and it might not be the last. One of the world\u2019s largest circular fashion ecosystems, Kantamanto Market is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":49119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[260,6375,36],"class_list":["post-49118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-netbuzz","tag-business","tag-business-sustainability","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}