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Show profile Hide profileFounder ; Cape Town Upcycling Centre : A Hands of Honour Venture
''rehabilitating waste and poor communities through engaging the socially marginalized ''
Creator : ECD Classroom on Wheels
Official Police Statement - Crime Rate Reduction where since inception of Hands of Honour
Cape Town UP-cycling Centre seeks to address three problems in Cape Town
1) Prolonged unemployment,
(2) Physically run down spaces,
(3) Effective management of obsolete stock/waste.
Hands of Honour employs the "unemployable" to up-cycle obsolete stock and recyclable items. Much of this waste is provided through partnerships with the corporate sector and would otherwise end up in landfills.
Proceeds from this have two benefits.
*First, it provides salaries for the unemployed
*Second, profits are invested in derelict community spaces, focusing on public spaces which have become havens for anti-social behavior.
Hands of Honour brings together 3 best practices:
*First, while "up-cycling," or reusing waste materials. Hands of Honor works directly with the waste generators to formalize this process, representing something new in South Africa. Corporations are the main "donor" of waste to Hands of Honor-donating rather than disposing their waste.
* Second, Hands of Honor's job training program provides skills and confidence to those members
*Finally, this process funds urban renewal initiatives, focusing on those areas that are identified by the community as being flash points for crime.
Taken together, these elements result in a program that can sustain itself, and contributes to a greener city, job creation, and reclaiming derelict urban spaces.
Our Classroom on Wheels range is made in part of upcycled materials and are re innovative solar-powered, modular teaching spaces which are able to transform any area into a classroom for learning. Created in collaboration with educational experts, COWs are designed to be used mainly in under-privileged communities, where space and access to educational resources are limited. They cater for a diverse range of learning needs in poor communities such as ECD , Basic Hygiene ( COVID Version) ,TEEN entrepreneurship ,STEM and Adult Literacy
Since the program started, 34 people have received salaried work from processing waste. 11 physically run down spaces have been rehabilitated, including developing a new food garden, upgrading places of learning, and upgrading dwellings of vulnerable groups.
Founder ; Cape Town Upcycling Centre : A Hands of Honour Venture
''rehabilitating waste and poor communities through engaging the socially marginalized ''
Creator : ECD Classroom on Wheels
Official Police Statement - Crime Rate Reduction where since inception of Hands of Honour
Cape Town UP-cycling Centre seeks to address three problems in Cape Town
1) Prolonged unemployment,
(2) Physically run down spaces,
(3) Effective management of obsolete stock/waste.
Hands of Honour employs the "unemployable" to up-cycle obsolete stock and recyclable items. Much of this waste is provided through partnerships with the corporate sector and would otherwise end up in landfills.
Proceeds from this have two benefits.
*First, it provides salaries for the unemployed
*Second, profits are invested in derelict community spaces, focusing on public spaces which have become havens for anti-social behavior.
Hands of Honour brings together 3 best practices:
*First, while "up-cycling," or reusing waste materials. Hands of Honor works directly with the waste generators to formalize this process, representing something new in South Africa. Corporations are the main "donor" of waste to Hands of Honor-donating rather than disposing their waste.
* Second, Hands of Honor's job training program provides skills and confidence to those members
*Finally, this process funds urban renewal initiatives, focusing on those areas that are identified by the community as being flash points for crime.
Taken together, these elements result in a program that can sustain itself, and contributes to a greener city, job creation, and reclaiming derelict urban spaces.
Our Classroom on Wheels range is made in part of upcycled materials and are re innovative solar-powered, modular teaching spaces which are able to transform any area into a classroom for learning. Created in collaboration with educational experts, COWs are designed to be used mainly in under-privileged communities, where space and access to educational resources are limited. They cater for a diverse range of learning needs in poor communities such as ECD , Basic Hygiene ( COVID Version) ,TEEN entrepreneurship ,STEM and Adult Literacy
Since the program started, 34 people have received salaried work from processing waste. 11 physically run down spaces have been rehabilitated, including developing a new food garden, upgrading places of learning, and upgrading dwellings of vulnerable groups.
