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.
Harvesting vegetables for hospital distribution
Les femmes en charge du potager du Jardin des Savoir-Faire ont réalisées une grosse récolte pour agrémenter les paniers de nourriture distribués aux patients de l’hôpital.Carottes et betteraves “primeur” vont ainsi rejoindre les autres légumes et éléments essentiels achetés en ville destinés … Read More
The Garden of Skills acquires a professional embroidery machine
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
Malanti Sewing Training
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
Wood training at Malanti
The Garden of Skills has been equipped with a craft workshop: the “Craft and Upcycling centre”, with all the tools needed to work with wood and metal in particular. Two young people have been trained in woodworking, focusing on the … Read More
Sewing Training in Malanti
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
Creation of work jackets for the Garden of skills by the women of the Malanti community, Eswatini
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
Making pants with the sewing workshop at the Garden of skills, Eswatini
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
First cycle of training in sewing and uniform making at the Garden of skills, Eswatini
The Garden of skills includes a sewing workshop to train women from the community of Malanti, and women identified at the Piggs Peak Hospital, of which Dessine l’Espoir is a partner. The first round of sewing training began with a … Read More
Sewing and distribution of school uniforms in Malanti
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