Sewing work jackets at the Garden of Skills
With the support of Keit, a specialist in professional workwear in France, a jacket and trousers have been designed and a pattern created to offer women an additional outlet for their sewing skills.
With the support of Keit, a specialist in professional workwear in France, a jacket and trousers have been designed and a pattern created to offer women an additional outlet for their sewing skills.
To help Garden of Skills compete in the local market for the production of school uniforms, Designing Hope has invested in a professional embroidery machine that will enable them to embroider the school emblems on site. This service is not very common … Read More
Professional sewing training is one of the main components of the Garden of Skills. Patricia Khumalo is the trainer at Fundzisa Live. She is responsible for a group of 8 young women from the Malanti community from the community of Malanti, … Read More
Patricia and Futhi are in charge of the sewing courses at the Garden of Skills. One of the aims of the training is to master the sewing of school tunics, which make up most of the compulsory uniforms for young … Read More
We wanted to create a specific identity for the Garden of skills around its emblem, the Lucky Flower, which contributed to its financing. Thus, aprons and work jackets designed by our partner Keit were sewn by the women on site. … Read More
Among the new patterns provided by the Keit company are also the pants for the boys’ uniform. This is a difficult production to set up as the pants are more classic (gray for all schools) and therefore it is difficult … Read More
The women of Malanti, newly trained in sewing at the Garden of Skills, made 40 uniforms that were distributed to vulnerable children in the two schools close to the centre. This was an opportunity for the people of Malanti to discover … Read More