Chanavee Suwanasri or Chan is a co-founder of Dress the dream. Apart from constantly learning new skills, innovation and connecting people, his passion lies in making the world a better place. He believes that every person has the ability to make positive impact to others. Chan currently works as a marketing specialist at Google and holds a bachelor degree from faculty of architecture, Chulalongkorn University.

Five-Year Project Goals:

• Support women empowerment NGO: The goal is to generate income for the Association for the Promotion of the Status of Women (www.apsw-thailand.org) who help domestic violence victims. They also work closely together with them to train and equip these women with skills so they can achieve a better quality of life without relying on APSW
• Reducing clothes waste: Because of the rise in fast fashion trend, they advocate sustainable apparel consumption by maximizing the usage of second-hand clothes and thereby contribute to the fight against clothes waste issue.

Organization Information: UpSkill ASEAN

Website: https://www.dressthedream.com/

Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/dressthedreamth/   and    https://www.instagram.com/dressthedream/

Small NGOs in Thailand face a similar problem. They need to rely on government budget or donation, which may vary and not sustainable, to continue their work making social impact. Providing them continuous source of income is the sustainable solution to solve this mentioned problem.

Also, with fast fashion trend, most women wear clothes a few times then keep them in their closet or throw them away, resulting increasing amount of clothes waste very year.

Dress the dream takes second-hand clothes donation, cleans them divide them to categories according to quality and sells in both online and offline platforms providing sustainable source of income for women empowering activities and NGOs, solving both environmental and gender inequality issues.