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Helderberg Gazette
Tuesday 28 August 2012
Naaldwerk-projek bring hoop vir Strand-vroue ’n Nuwe projek van Badisa in Strand het ten doel om werklose vroue op te lei om ’n inkomste uit hul handwerk te maak. Die projek leer tans vyf vroue vaardighede wat hulle in staat sal stel om ’n inkomste te verdien, sê Badisa se Odette Gordon, koördineerder van die naaldwerkprojek. “Die naaldwerk projek is in Junie vanjaar begin met die doel om vroue uit minderbevoorregte gemeenskappe vaardighede te leer om hul eie klere en huishoudelike items te maak, sowel as om hulle te leer om entrepreneurs te word,” sê Gordon. Die vroue leer hoe om duvets, sakke en kussingslope te maak, en hulle wil ook graag leer klere maak. Katie Arendse, een van die vroue wat aan die projek deelneem, sê die vroue wil hul vaardighede ontwikkel. “Ons doen dit want ’n mens wil
jouself uplift.” Die nuwe vaardighede bied hul ook die geleentheid om ’n inkomste te verdien. “Werk is so skaars. Daar is baie vroue wat sit en niks doen nie. Die projek gee ons kans om ’n geldjie te verdien,” sê Sophia Jason, die klasfasiliteerder. En hulle sê die klasse is ’n uitdaging. “Jy werk ook met jou hande, en nie altyd met die masjien nie. Dis baie interessant om die eindresultaat van jou ontwerpe te sien,” sê Linda Cooksen, een van die vroue wat ook aan die projek deelneem. Gordon sê die projek was oorspronklik beplan om naaldwerk vaardighede aan jong vroue te leer, maar die belangstelling in die projek het egter van die ouer vroue in die gemeenskap gekom. “Die groep wil uitbrei sodat hulle ander vroue naaldwerk kan leer,” sê
Hier is (van links) Linda Cooksen,Odette Gordon, Sophia Jason, Katie Arendse en Cleoné Orlam met pragtige naaldwerk wat hulle self gedoen het. Gordon. “Hulle wil meer items maak, maar as gevolg van geldelike gebrek asook ’n gebrek aan materiaal, kan hulle nie.” Gordon sê enige sken-
kings om die inisiatief suksesvol te maak is welkom. Vir enige navrae bel Odette Gordon by 021 853 1888.
Sophia Jason en Linda Cooksen is positief oor die projek. FOTOS: NICOLE MCCAIN
It’s all in the presentation NICOLE MCCAIN With so much pomp and ceremony, the handover of 500 blankets in Nomzamo on Thursday could have been the signing of an international treaty – all while some of the community’s poorest residents patiently waited to receive their one blanket and warm meal. Thinking they were going to receive just a bit of winter warmth, donated by the Chinese community living in Cape Town, none of the Nomzamo residents was expecting an entire delegation of the expatriates, bearing
banners and flags. The residents, who were carefully selected by NGO Mustadafin Foundation as those worst affected by heavy flooding in the area, gathered at the community hall in Nomzamo to await the guest of honour: Liang Shugen, consul general of China. Shugen was running about half an hour late, but made up for it with grand entrance and an entourage of around 50 members of the Chinese community, who soon circulated little Chinese flags for the Nomzamo residents to wave in anticipation of the gifts to come. Fortunately, the residents had the flags to keep them busy while they waited again, this time for the Chinese community members to form a symbolic chain to pass the blankets inside. This was followed by a breakdown of the speaker system, which meant that at 15:00 the five speeches and opening prayer had to proceed without amplification. The consul general spoke of how much the Chinese community cared for South African residents, such as those gathered in the hall, before the City of Cape Town’s mayoral committee member for safety and security, JP Smith, taught the hall, filed with a majority
Coucillor Mbuyiselo Matha, consul general Liang Shugen and Alderman JP Smith hand over a blanket to Noluzuyo Kabase. PHOTO: NICOLE MCCAIN of Xhosa speakers, to say “thank you” in Mandarin. After an hour and a half of waiting, it was finally time for the residents to each receive their blanket, no small feat when 500 names had to be ticked off the list. The delegates beat a hasty retreat to Sir Lowry’s Pass for the next round of donations, leaving Ward 85’s Councillor Mbuyiselo Matha and a handful of Law Enforcement officers to deal with a mountain of blankets towering over them.