Since we first came to South Africa, we discovered the need for education and skills improvement.

 

We also discovered that there is little, or nothing done for adults’ education, and for individuals who relocate from parts of South Africa where English is not the spoken language. They come to the big cities looking for work, and implicitly a better life, but they find it difficult to integrate, and find the jobs that could give them, and those at home, a better standard of living.

 

In 2007, we met Nokubonga Liwani, and became inspired by her desire to learn. In 2010, we decided to create the Imizamo Yethu Crafters program. With her help, we started identifying members of the Transkei community who were living in the Imizamo Yethu township in Hout Bay. Always concentrating on what people could do tomorrow, here, we teach crafts, and provide the opportunity to manufacture and sell for the direct benefit of each crafter.

 

10% from each purchase is allocated to the crafters who participate in the making process.

 

The care we show, the growth of each Crafter, and the success of the concept, and the products, are our biggest rewards!