The coloured headbands to be distributed to a bay of lucky fans on Sunday, in celebration of Kamdyn McIntosh's 200th AFL match, have been created by an organisation unlike any other and with products unique to the Richmond Football Club.

Enter SisterWorks.

SisterWorks is a grass-roots social enterprise that work closely with migrant and refugee women to economically empower them. Since their start in 2013, SisterWorks has helped over 2500 women from 105 different countries by offering a range of programs, entrepreneurship and employment opportunities that help women develop skills, confidence and connections.

Now, they're utilising their skills to bring the iconic McIntosh headbands to life ahead of Sunday's clash with North Melbourne at the MCG.

What were unusable Richmond guernseys and old merchandise, will now become over hundreds of individual headbands. 

"The partnership between SisterWorks and Richmond is really around the repurposing and recycling of Richmond's waste material around guernseys and scarves," Shamila Gopalan, SisterWorks' Chief Commercial Officer, told Richmond Media.

"We repurpose them into various different items that are fun. Some of the items we created were dog jumpers out of scarves, we've done gym bags which we've given out to AFLW players and toiletry bags with the guernseys."

But it's more than just repurposing items. It's about the opportunity SisterWorks is affording to women from all walks of life.

"How we've come together with Richmond has been a lot more wholistic than repurposing. I do think the partnership is actually really important, especially for our Sisters," Gopalan said.

"It's actually given them 140 hours of employment, which has resulted in close to $40,000 in terms of economic empowerment to these women. It helps them elevate their skills and gives them a purpose and a meaning for them to be able to share their stories and connect with a popular sport in AFL.

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Richmond Media sat down with Kamdyn McIntosh ahead of his milestone 200th game for the Tigers.

"We're using Richmond's repurposed guernseys to do that. This particular project gives our Sisters 30 hours of work which will allow them to have an earning income of $5,000 to $10,000."

Richmond Football Club has been proudly partnered with SisterWorks for the past 12 months, diverting 96kg of unusable club merchandise from landfill.

These materials have been repurposed into new products, like the Kamdyn 200th headbands.

Additionally, the project has reduced carbon emissions by 19kg and resulted in 140 hours of work for the Sisters. In total, the partnership has generated more than $38,000 of social value. This partnership positively impacts our environment, as well as the refugee women who were employed for this project.

Keep an eye on Richmond's social channels next week to see the whole SisterWorks process of bringing the headbands to life.