Design26 Foundation provides free sewing skills training on industrial machines including free transport to and from our centre to teenage mothers and underpriviledge girls aged between 15 and 21 living in the Cape Flats area. Our project restores hope of a second chance and opportunities to become employable within today's competitive environment positively.
Everyone always provide workshops around teenage pregnancy awareness and prevention programmes, yet statistics still show a third of girls living in Cape Town falls pregnant every year. What happens when teenage pregnancies do happen? What are the best ways to deal with this problem once it has happened? What support structures are in place to support the teenage girl with survival and life skills to provide for her baby and her other than government grants?
Assist them to gain a skill to find work in order to get a stable income and learn some real necessary skills to make themselves become survival and try to help and afford their child. We want to support to our target people in terms of skills and mind-set, and we will not support them in terms of free financial cash. Free financial support and another non-long term sustainable services support will not help our community grow up, and sometime effected to be negative of development purpose.
Our organisation aims to improve the long-term economic status of teenage mothers and underprivileged girls and their families through new business opportunities enhanced through their skills.
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
