The co-creation work was coordinated by designers Renato Imbroisi and Cristiana Pereira Barretto, with facilitation from the H360 team. Most of the inmates had no prior knowledge of cutting, sewing, crocheting, or embroidery. Renato and Cristiana led four week-long technical training workshops for the cooperative members at Tremembé Women's Penitentiary 2, with the support of artisans Sonia Maria Leal Bento and Terezinha Mendes dos Santo, and the voluntary collaboration of designers Camila Testa Stifelmann and Gisela Allegro Baptista Bilyk, restorer Isabel Milani, and visual artist Paulo Von Poser, as shown in the video below:
”"”Our first product line was developed by women incarcerated at the Women's Penitentiary 2 in Tremembé, in the interior of São Paulo, who participated in the Lili Social Cooperative, the first incubated by the Humanitas 360 Institute within its Entrepreneurship Behind and Beyond Bars program.
This process of co-creation and technical training lasted four months. Throughout this period, and for more than a year and a half afterward, the Humanitas360 Institute team visited the prison unit weekly to develop the cooperative's incubation work, supporting participants in management, purchasing and controlling inputs, inventory, quality control, financial administration, and revenue sharing. Funding for the project's development was provided by H360 and renowned international human rights institutions.
