On Monday, July 21 Khulani Simunye started with the first course in weaving.
Aim of this course is to stimulate people to start with a weaving production.
An experienced professional weaver guides them hereby to teach them the tricks of the trade.
The demand for original handmade weaving products is growing. South-Africa was in the past a market leader in weaving products. By the introduction of mechanical production, the handwork fell into oblivion.
Khulani Simunye wants to reanimate this business. Handwork is always original. Each piece has its own identity and we want to place that identity in the spot-light. Each person will be followed during the training and later on during the production and a story will be written about the person of each piece of work.
As soon as people are well aware of the technique, we want to show their work and sell it. This is a way to create an income for these people.
The first course will be financed with personal money of the members of
Khulani Simunye. When this starting course extends, we will need more financial support.
To train a starting weaver we need to invest EUR 18 per week.
As soon as this weaver grows into a skilled weaver, she will come into consideration to start up a production. Via this production, Khulani Simunye hopes to regain the investment, in order to train again new people.
If you feel that you want to support Khulani Simunye with this initiative, please mail us:
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