soleRebels is an amazing footwear company founded in 2004 by company
founder + managing director Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu in her community of
Zenabwork, Ethiopia!soleRebels began as an idea : that the creation of shoes could
be a platform for inspiration hope ; by crafting xtraCOOL footwear that
gave the person wearing them immense comfort and joy, and by creating
great employment opportunities RIGHT INSIDE OUR OWN COMMUNITY and giving
the often ignored a chance to engage in creative endeavors.Our motto at soleRebels is: “making the world a better place. One step at a time.” And we attempt to do that, in whatever small manner, every day.PFom our inception we proudly employed+trained the highly
marginalized or those thought unemployable . together we set out to
re-imagine the traditional ETHIOPIAN “selate” and “barabasso” shoes
(recycled car tire sole shoe pictured to the right) in dynamic + vibrant
new fashions.
