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“Omushana” n. sunshine
Omushana is an Nkore – language of Bantu – word that signifies Sunshine when interpreted in English. ☼
What is Omushana, narrative:
I Am Garland, designer of the Omushana brand, and I am Bantu, from Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. An advanced diploma graduate from Blacksburg High School with multiple Virginia state championship accomplishments in soccer and track and field. I was a Division-1 Men’s Soccer student-athlete then graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Radford University in Virginia. After I graduated, I served as a Community Agribusiness Volunteer with the U.S.A. Peace Corps in Uganda for two years, because I sought to apply my knowledge learned and gained about how societal functions affect outcomes for healthy overall-wellbeing by allocation of resources in an environment. In Uganda, I worked at a Ugandan-founded-and-operated non-governmental organization and alongside Bantu families, farmers, caregivers, entrepreneurs, social workers, students, athletes, and volunteers, as we all lived in service of energetically striving towards the creation of a comfortable, happy, and thriving reality.
Upon finishing my two-year service, I founded Omushana, as a social enterprise of which I designed clothing and with each sale would channel profit to purchase solar lanterns that would be provided to rural Ugandan homes. The One Garment for One Lantern business model aided over 500 homes of four villages by providing a replacement for the commonly-used kerosene lanterns which caused health and safety issues and risks. While solar lanterns not only solved those issues and risks, they also provided a cost-effective and more reliable solution in face of high kerosene access and use costs amongst another issue of prevalent power-outages causing secure lighting problems, whereby solar was a favorable and fortunate lighting solution, creating healthy overall-wellbeing outcomes for the shared environments we worked in service, inspired by the prevalent power of the sun.
See more about the successful obsolete project of One Garment for One Lantern at not-for-profit organization, Obsolete Project.
Now, Omushana is a social enterprise that remains inspired by the power of the sun. We are a force of business to be a source of light, which has the power to replace what may feel more dark. We operate to provide sunshine for people who appreciate feeling like light, like the sun which shines so bright. And more than how our clothing generates that feeling by wear, the offer expands to inspire one’s feeling even more, as 9% of profit from each sale is channeled to support societal functions that affect healthy overall-wellbeing outcomes for-in shared environments, in service of a comfortable, happy, and thriving collective reality.
Omushana worked with a non-governmental organization (NGO) partner in Uganda to provide our solar lighting initiative to be of service for the creation of healthy overall-wellbeing outcomes in their local environment in which we operated with the local partnership. Omushana now works with a sovereign non-governmental organization, Obsolete Project, erected and structured to operate independently but diversely, and energetically by allocating seed funding resource towards creations of shared environment services that create healthy overall-wellbeing outcomes. 9% of each sale goes to not-for-profit organization, Obsolete Project.
9% of each sale goes to non-governmental not-for-profit organization, Obsolete Project.
Omushana is…
Clothing that generates feeling like light, like the sun which shines so bright, by wear.
Clothing that provides feeling like light, like the sun which shines so bright, by profit share.
See yourself as the light, as the sun, feeling great, feeling bright! Even, a giver of light!
See yourself like a seed, which grows to create feelings that are high and bright, through the power of the sun as it shines.
Omushana is Sunshine.
