October news

What we've been up to at The Love Project Workshop during October:
1. We have been meeting with various established community projects and NPO's including The Scalabrini Centre in Cape
Town (they offer welfare and development assistance to refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants in South African) and
Ubuntu Africa Child Care Centre in Khayelitsha (they care for children with HIV/Aids), discussing possible partnerships such as
helping to develop and grow the small sewing centre at The Scalabrini Centre and teaching embroidery- and other needle craft
skills to the unemployed mothers of the children at the child care centre.
2. We have been meeting with potential soft skill training volunteers.
3. We have also been collecting fabric remnants from sponsors to use in future creative projects.
Our needs:
Things
1. An old computer or laptop, a printer, a scanner and a copier.
2. Fabric remnants for future creative projects, and needle craft tools like scissors, needles, pins, yarns, wool, tape measure,
tracing wheel etc.
Volunteers
1. A fashion designer willing to assist with the development of Scalabrini’s sewing centre. They need current, up-to-date
designs to be able to sell and market their products sufficiently. It is a once off project.
2. An embroidery- and needle craft trainer. Training will be one morning a week for 4-6 weeks.