Like every day of the week, the children at Halfway House receive a hot meal prepared by Lulu and Fisani, the center’s managers. Vegetables from the garden are used to prepare a sauce to accompany the starch, rice or pap, … Read More
The creation of a new room dedicated to tutoring has greatly improved the organisation of activities at Halfway House. This structured space allows the older children to help the younger ones with their homework in better conditions. The younger children, … Read More
Every day, the Halfway House in Roosboom welcomes 60 underprivileged children from the township and provides them with a hot meal. Every day, Lulu and Fisani prepare a starch-based dish – pap, the traditional cornmeal, or rice – accompanied by … Read More
The vegetable garden team set about enlarging the beds to increase their yield. The large grassy areas on either side of the rows of beds have been reduced, providing a 40% gain in cultivable area. These beds, located close to … Read More
At the Garden of Skills in Malanti, Eswatini, the women in the sewing workshop recently completed a batch of school uniforms for the girls at the St Paul’s School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Lesotho. The uniforms … Read More
Designing Hope has been involved in the Roosboom township since 2011, where it runs a day care home for orphaned children (Halfway House). They all attend the nearby Buhlebezwe school, which has 770 children. With the support of the Bel … Read More
With the support of Bon Marché Rive Gauche, the Designing Hope association has been able to finance the extension of its main building at the Garden of Skills in Malanti, to create a multi-purposeroom capable of hosting both training courses … Read More
For the past 20 years, the Designing Hope association has been promoting the distribution of free condoms, mainly in southern Africa, by designing attractive packaging bearing messages of awareness and prevention of HIV and other STDs. This year’s campaign was … Read More
80 children from St Paul’s School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Lesotho were selected according to social criteria to receive a school uniform donated by The Ivory Foundation. The shirts were sewn in Eswatini on the Garden … Read More
Farming is traditionally carried out by men in Lesotho. In order to open up the vocational support project for deaf and hearing-impaired young people at St Paul’s school to young girls, a sewing training program was devised in collaboration with … Read More
