Vekile Sesha waits in line outside a garment factory in Maseru, Lesotho Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. Sesha lost her job when the coronavirus pandemic hit the world two years ago and the global fashion industry crumple. when, faced with collapsing demand, brands canceled orders worth billions of dollars and few felt the effects so harshly as the tens of millions of workers, most of them women, who stitched the world's clothes. (AP Photo/Neo Ntsoma)
MASERU, Lesotho (AP) — Vekile Sesha stood outside the rusted gates of a garment factory in the industrial district of Lesotho’s capital, Maseru, willing her luck to change. Four months earlier, the blue jeans factory where she worked nearby abruptly shut, blaming plummeting demand from the Western brands it supplied amid the pandemic.
