The United States of America reaffirmed its commitment to support Ghana’s largest apparel manufacturer in West Africa, Dignity Do the Right Thing (DTRT) located in Adabraka, Accra. The country will increase its export volumes from Ghana to $28 million by end of 2020 and employ an additional 2,500 youth from the country.

The DTRT apparel manufacturing facility is a beneficiary of US Agency for International Development (USAID) programming and the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA).

The facility was formed in 2014 as a joint venture between a local Ghanaian clothing manufacturer (Dignity) and U.S. investors (Do the Right Thing). The company employs approximately 2,500 people, the majority of whom are women, who manufacture more than 10 million polos, T-shirts, and fleeces for sale in the U.S market. DTRT has driven the growth of garment manufacturing in Ghana and apparel exports through AGOA considerably over the last five years.

Exports have increased from less than $4 million in 2014 to approximately $14 million in 2018, and have risen by 50 per cent year-on-year from the first quarter of 2019. A greater percentage of the workers at DTRT have little or no educational background, some of them comprise of persons living with a disability while the rest are street hawkers.