By William Day | Impact and Operations Officer
Dear friends, donors, and interested people,
This project is directly tied to our project teaching women in the township around Cape Town to sew using sewing machines and materials we provide, taught by our specialist teacher. Unfortuneately we have had a significant struggle for funding on this project recently which means we have had to pause the initiative of training new sewing students. However this does not mean the project has been halted entirely.
We have 2 graduates actively working in the sewing workshop at the moment who are building up a fantastic stockpile of merchandise to sell at local markets. This is fantastic for multiple reasons: firstly they get hands on experience selling products competitively - a key entrepreneurial skill, secondly they are selling things they have made themselves which provides a sense of acheivement. Furthermore, the more tote bags, laptop sleeves, toiletries bags and more things they sell, the more money generated to use in the project to fund the training of more new students. In time, if enough products are sold this project should be fully self-sustaining and grow larger and larger.
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