{"id":548,"date":"2025-06-06T09:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T09:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cucilento.com\/about-us\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T17:14:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T17:14:30","slug":"la-nostra-storia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cucilento.com\/en\/la-nostra-storia\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Story"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CuCilento: a story hand-stitched, stitch by stitch<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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A Journey Called CuCilento<\/h6>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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CuCilento: A Story Sewn with Care<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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In the heart of Cilento, Sarah\u2019s dream comes to life: to build, through upcycling and craftsmanship, a new way of inhabiting the world. CuCilento is the thread that stitches past and future, memory and action.<\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Let me introduce myself: I am Sarah Emilie Khoudja<\/strong> and in July 2021, at the age of forty, I left Brussels with my family. I left behind a city life and a job as a project manager in the humanitarian sector to take a sabbatical year in the heart of Cilento, immersed in the National Park. The call of nature, of slowing down, of returning to the essential, was strong.
But I soon realized it wouldn\u2019t just be \u201ca year.\u201d Life, with its quiet strength, had led us toward a deeper change. We had chosen \u2014 perhaps without fully realizing it \u2014 to stay. And now? How to reinvent oneself, how to make a living without giving up meaning and coherence? I\u2019m not here to tell a fairy tale. Living here is beautiful, but not always easy. The differences are many. Yet, it was from those very differences that observations, intuitions, and ideas began to take shape.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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I asked myself: how is it possible that top-quality food products are still sold wrapped in plastic? Or that special agricultural materials are abandoned \u2014 sometimes even burned? I longed to find a way to contribute concretely to this territory, combining my skills with something more tangible, more manual. That\u2019s when an old passion resurfaced: sewing. In the heat of mid-August 2022, I stitched the first prototypes of the \u201cKit Emilie.\u201d People loved them. A lot. Over the following months, I refined the idea, and in October, CuCilento was born \u2014 a name that in dialect means \u201cwith Cilento.\u201d A project that blends the desire to live creatively every day with the will to make my part for the environment. To me, upcycling means giving value: restoring dignity to what was considered waste, transforming it into something new, useful, and beautiful. Two years ago, I could never have imagined all of this. And who knows what\u2019s still left to stitch, discover, and share.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In the meantime, I thank life \u2014 and the people who walk this path with me \u2014 for making CuCilento possible. This project was born from a simple gesture, but it moves forward every day thanks to those who choose it with awareness.<\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Like a little hummingbird carrying water to put out a fire, I contribute with small gestures to a greater change!<\/h2>

CuCilento is a sustainable, tailor-made project where discarded materials are brought back to life, and every piece tells a story of care and transformation. I promote a circular economy by creating job opportunities for local women, valuing time, craftsmanship, and human connections.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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A Tribute to Circular Economy<\/h6>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Tailored upcycling, with a heart rooted in Cilento.<\/h2>

In the heart of Cilento, where nature still whispers and hands know how to create, CuCilento is born: a tailoring upcycling workshop that gives new life to what once seemed lost. We transform discarded materials \u2014 like olive harvesting nets, decommissioned sails, and forgotten fabrics \u2014 into unique objects, designed to accompany daily life with lightness, functionality, and beauty.\nEach creation is the result of a slow and conscious gesture. A small tribute to simplicity, to material, to respect for the environment. CuCilento embraces the principles of circular economy: valuing secondary raw materials (SRMs), reducing waste, and generating new possibilities from what already exists. Every product is born from a careful process \u2014 selection, cleaning, transformation \u2014 where creativity meets sustainability and each piece becomes a story of recovery, identity, and future.\n\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Our Social Commitment<\/h6>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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A Widespread Workshop, A Commitment That Weaves Connections<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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For CuCilento, sustainability is not just about the environment \u2014 it's also social, relational, and woven into everyday life.<\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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We chose to build a widespread workshop<\/strong>, entrusting the production to local seamstresses who work from home, with their own time, their own space, their own stories.
A model that balances family life and artisanal work, values local skills, and restores dignity to a craft made of ancient gestures and contemporary care.<\/p>

We produce in Cilento<\/strong>, because this is where the project was born, and because the land nourishes us every day with inspiration, raw materials, and respect.
Our workshops are quiet yet vibrant places, where each item takes shape through a careful process: recovery, selection, cleaning, transformation.
Every CuCilento product is sewn by real hands, in real time. It\u2019s a small act of circular economy, but also a powerful gesture of community. Choosing CuCilento means bringing home not just an item, but a piece of territory, a vision of the future, a value to wear.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Support CuCilento<\/h6>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Each Piece, a Hand-Sewn Story<\/h2>

Our creations are born from reclaimed materials, skilled hands, and slow time. Each piece is unique\u2014a result of mindful choices and a care you can feel to the touch. Wearing CuCilento means carrying a fragment of land, vision, and authentic beauty with you.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Let\u2019s Stay in Touch<\/h6>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Every like, every share is a thread that connects us<\/h2>

Follow CuCilento on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp: small gestures that support a project made of hands, stories, and conscious choices. Feel free to email us for custom requests, questions, or simply to get to know us better.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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