Here’s the lifecycle of the shirts. Port au Prince sweatshops produce these t-shirts sold in Walmart and other cheap clothing stores. The majority of “Pepe” that arrive back on the island have been donated by Americans to charities and collection centers, rejected by thrift shops, and have gone through the sorting warehouses run by Haitians in Miami that discard the winter clothes and other unmarketable items from the lot. And the worst T-shirts, those with the dumbest slogans, reappear in remote provinces of Haiti where all the people speak Creole, and very few understand much English.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 09:08:16 +0000
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