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2014-12-08
VGTU students‘ social business idea: shirts with drawings of deaf children
A good idea is enough to start a new business. First year students of the Faculty of Creative Industries at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) are confident about that. They have already prepared and will soon start the trade of a line of T-shirts with deaf children's drawings on them. The young people will give their profit to the Lithuanian Centre for Pre-school Age Hearing Impaired Children.
Ramunė Baranauskaitė, Steponas Ryliškis, Kristina Savičenkaitė, Ieva Butkutė, Agnė Kliaugaitė and Šarūnė Skirmantaitė, studying at the Faculty of Creative Industries, came up to this business idea, while preparing for their lectures. After the teacher of Introduction to Media Studies assigned the task to find a serious problem in our society and creatively link it with a new product, not yet produced, they turned their attention to the deaf children, from three to seven years old, and their capacities.
"Our idea was not only to create an attractive product, but also to contribute to the development of deaf children‘s self-expression. We wanted to increase their busyness and to reveal original approach to life. Our aim was to show that children with disabilities have the same creativity as everybody else. When we saw the colourful drawings of the deaf children, we decided to put them on T-shirts,"– said Ramunė Baranauskaitė, one of the developers of students project "Arthands".
VGTU students cooperate with children of the Lithuanian Centre for Pre-school Age Hearing Impaired Children. One of the main goals of the project, selling T-shirts – to collect as much support as possible for the children of the Centre.
In mid-December already, the students of creative industries will start selling T-shirts, the price varying from 50 to 70 Litas. The students did not plan mass production – they will produce T-shirts only in accordance with the orders, putting on T-shirts the drawings, selected only by the customers themselves.
You can watch the T-shirt Gallery on "Arthands" page and social network of Facebook.