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Sewing entrepreneurship: Nosipho

admin July 9, 2018 Employment Stories, Sewing, Stories of Hope

Nosipho is a young, talented woman who joined our sewing training in the second intake of our sewing class in July 2017.
She quickly progressed in her new skill

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Entrepreneurship in sewing: Busi

admin July 9, 2018 Employment Stories, Employment-Feature, Sewing

Busi is a quiet, skilful and determined woman from the local community who had a passion for sewing and business but had limited practical experience and exposure. She learnt about

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Entrepreneurship in cleaning services

admin July 9, 2018 Employment Stories, Stories of Hope

Siyabonga is an innovative young man who had been battling to find employment for a while and has decided to start his own business that providing cleaning services for corporates,

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Sewing uniforms: Khanyi

admin July 9, 2018 Employment Stories, Sewing, Stories of Hope

Khanyi started our sewing training module 1 at the beginning of 2017, and at that point she had never used a sewing machine before.

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Entrepreneurship in fast food

admin July 9, 2018 Employment Stories, Employment-Feature, Stories of Hope

Two ladies who attended our initial Khulanathi Process pilot in October 2017, Thandazile and Zamile were both unemployed and not sure what they wanted to do with their futures.

As

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Sewing and business success: Wendy

admin July 9, 2018 Employment Stories, Sewing, Stories of Hope

Wendy started our sewing training program in 2016 and did not know how to sew at all. She quickly picked up the basics and this empowered her to realise that

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Servant Leaders: Children’s Sports

admin July 9, 2018 Servant Leader, Stories of Hope

Niwoh, Zama, Busisiwe and Nondu were a part of our Khulanathi Process cycle 1 that was facilitated in February and March 2018. They found our adult life skills section extremely

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Servant Leader: Sfundo

admin July 9, 2018 Servant Leader, Stories of Hope

As a result of the October 2017 Khulanathi process pilot, Sfundo, (a young man) has been encouraged to start a youth initiative, by organising youth events in the community.

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Servant Leaders: Sisterhood

admin July 9, 2018 Servant Leader, Stories of Hope

Four of our graduating students from our initial October 2017 Khulanathi process, have started their own business and community project called: Sisterhood.

They focus on serving woman and children in

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Servant Leader: Nkululeko

admin July 9, 2018 Servant Leader, Stories of Hope

Nkululeko, started attending our high school leadership development program in 2015. In 2017, a s a senior in the program he was challenged to grow in his leadership abilities. Through

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Servant Leader: Wanderboy

admin July 9, 2018 Servant Leader, Stories of Hope

Wanderboy was one of our high school program students in grade 11 in 2017. He loves our leadership development topics and felt inspired and empowered to take action and give

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Servant Leader: Erica

admin July 5, 2018 Servant Leader, Servant Leader Feature, Stories of Hope

Erica was a senior in our high school program in 2016. She is a natural leader, who through the developmental trainings and support that she received from our mentors, ended

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Servant Leader: Zamani Sokhulu

admin July 5, 2018 Servant Leader, Stories of Hope

Zamani Sokhulu, started attending Simunye when he was just 6 years old in 2004. He encouraged his two siblings Promise and Lindo to attend as well. Zamani’s favourite subject was

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Servant Leader: Lungelo Khomo

admin July 5, 2018 Servant Leader, Stories of Hope

Lungelo Khomo, one of the early graduates of the leadership program, who first came across Seed of Hope when he was 17 and had completed school in 2012. Opportunities were

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Servant Leader: Mandisa Nzama

admin July 5, 2018 Servant Leader, Stories of Hope

Mandisa Nzama started in our Simunye program, as a young teen. She stood out from the beginning as a committed learner who excelled in everything she did. When she graduated

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Samkelo Hlophe

admin July 5, 2018 Servant Leader, Stories of Hope

Samkelo Hlophe, started to attend Seed of Hope’s primary school program, almost from the day the centre first opened- when he was just 10 years old. Over the years, as

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Family support in crisis

admin July 4, 2018 Healthy Families, Stories of Hope

In our 2018 Khulanathi cycle 1, one of the students was dealing with a social and health crisis at home that had been affecting her and her child for along

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Job seeking skills result in learnership

admin July 4, 2018 Employment Stories, Stories of Hope

Sukoluhle is one of our staff members son’s who was finished school but unemployed. He decided to join our pilot employment preparation course in May 2017, and said that he

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Full time sewing employment

admin July 4, 2018 Employment Stories, Sewing

In January 2016, we launched our newly overhauled sewing training program, which consists of three modules, from basics,to intermediate, to fashion design skills. Each module now includes practical products that

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Never Too Late to Start Again

admin July 3, 2018 Employment Stories

In July 2017 we started our initial Khulanathi process pilot with two week’s of adult life skills and leadership development. This section of the process was actually requested by members

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Mlondi’s Initiative Pays Off

admin July 3, 2018 Employment Stories

Mlondi said “I was so excited and nervous at the same time when the interview came, but I’m happy that I was prepared, and during the training I learnt all my previous mistakes and corrected them”.

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