About Us

Our Story
About the founder

Our Story

Black NTAW Fashion is a non-profit organization located in Dzaleka Refugee Camp, founded by Ntawigane Mushagalusa in 2020 but published in 2024 as an organization.

Between 2020 and 2024, Black NTAW Fashion was working as an organization by providing free training in tailoring and fashion design to people around him, providing assistance to those who had ideas to develop, and giving free access to sewing machines to those who had work to do but were missing a machine. In Black NTAW fashion, we are in good communication with all the members of the community, regardless of their origins and backgrounds. In this organization, we give free training in tailoring and fashion design to youths between 16-30 years old and to single mothers in Dzaleka Refugee Camp and beyond.

For those who inspire fashion design but are still in school,. We give them the opportunity to learn during the holidays and other times; we give them 12 months of training to make sure that they can depend on themselves and make money for their lives.

After training, some of them open their businesses, and others contribute to help the organization as the teachers’ volunteers.

The organization is not only for refugees but also an opportunity for those in their homeland to learn about tailoring and fashion design.

We do expose the talent and works done by our students to different places and events, like the TUMAINI LETU festival in Dzaleka Refugee Camp SANA WEEKEND in Dzaleka Refugee Camp CHIPEZE MARKET in Lilongwe.

We do participate in those events with the objective of showing people around us that in Dzaleka we are full of talents and are open to the world of fashion design.

We nurture the talent of MODELS by providing free training. We work with boys and girls aged 5 to 25 who aspire to be models or mannequins.

as you can see in our gallery. We use our mannequins to perform at different events, exposing their talents too.

In our organization, we have a group named Black NTAW Charity (Black Nation Together for Attracting the World with Charity). we provide assistance and help to orphans, widows, single mothers, and elderly people.

In charity groups, we sew small bags and uniforms to assist the orphans when they are about to open classes.

In Black NTAW charity, we have our slogan, “HELD PEOPLE WHO REALLY NEED YOUR HELP.”

With the few that we have, we do share with others. We work hard to push our vision and mission, but we don’t have any support or sponsorship, and this is a big challenge we have, The few dollars we get after selling our designs, we pay, buy some materials for training and do assistance.

About the Funder

Ntawigane Mushagalusa

NTAWIGANE Mushagalusa, a 24-year-old Republic Democratic of Congo refugee, never thought he’d find a way to combine his passion for fashion design with his love of electricity. But, in the Dzaleka refugee camp, he discovered a unique way to merge his skills. Before the war and insecurity in KIVU, the EST party of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. NTAWIGANE was an electrician. He got his diploma in 2016 from the Institute Technique Avenir BUKAVU in Industrial Electricity; there he was a laureate with 72%. Then he fled to the DZALEKA refugee camp in the Republic of MALAWI, was in June 2017.

He arrived at Dzaleka Refugee Camp in 2017, and he couldn’t get an opportunity to get a job as an electrician. In 2018, he went to an English training center to learn the language because he couldn’t do anything without knowing it. In 2019, see how difficult life was. He plans to do sewing training for six months so WE CAN MAKE IT AGAIN with teacher ROSTIN. During all these 6 months, he was focused, and after school, he went to BINDU’s tailoring shop to do more practice. When he started, nobody believed in him, but he knew that one day, this way, he would achieve self-sufficiency in Dzaleka Refugee Camp for his future years.

In 2020, after finishing with tailoring training, he did so voluntarily for the next promotion. And the same year, he opened his own tailoring shop. In 2021-2023, he’ll be known as one of the best fashion designers in Dzaleka Refugee Camp There, he started making his dream come true by doing some designs and started to help others by giving free training in tailoring and fashion designing. In 2024, he had a vision to make his tailoring shop an organization where the doors would be open to any youths and single mothers who wanted to learn about tailoring or fashion design. He named this organization Black NTAW Fashion (Black Nation Together for Attracting the World with Fashion) In Dzaleka camp, Ntawigane is an example to follow among the youth living around him. He always gives his testimony to show youth and people around him that it does not matter if YOU feel like YOUR BODY IS IN PRISON Remember that your mind is free; in camp, there are a lot of opportunities, and you can change your CV. your whole story.

Mission

Our mission is to create fashion designing world that connects cultures, enables self-expression, and supports social change. And in Dzaleka Camp we nurture talent, foster creativity, and open doors to professional opportunities in the fashion industry for Refugee Artists.

Vision

We envision a world where fashion designing bridges cultures and locations, conveying emotions, identities, and beliefs, and acting as a symbol of protest and unity.