STITCH2STITCH

“Making Great Things Possible”

STITCH2STITCH, a skills training programme for single unemployed mothers, in collaboration with LUS-PIN, a sewing design enterprise, is all about empowering women so that they can impact their communities. This initiative forms part of the social justice programme

VISION

To provide training and skills development to facilitate financial independence for socially and financially disadvantaged single, unemployed women who are parents living in and around Khayelitsha.

Our five-year plan includes the following:

  • To have our own premises that can be well equipped and set up to run both the training and the Incubation System. Currently we must set up and set down daily. On 23 November 2019 we accomplished this with the opening of the STITCH2STITCH/ LUS-PIN training center in Khayelitsha.
  • To offer the women selected to join the sewing business an advanced sewing course to improve and develop their skills.
  • To purchase a vehicle so that trainees can be collected for training. It is a challenge for trainees to cover the transport costs required to complete the programme as they are unemployed and often rely on kind to cover this cost.
  • To be able to employ staff which would include:
    • Project Manager
    • Lecturers for all the subjects taught
  • To purchase industrial machines and industrial over lockers. This goal was accomplished in 2017 with the acquisition of an industrial sewing machine and an industrial overlocker.

MAIN & ANCILLARY OBJECTIVES

Testimonies from Programme Trainees

“I have learnt so many things from S2S. The following are skills I have learnt, sewing, computer skills, craft, business skills, loving people and communicating well with people.

I am really thankful for S2S because I also learnt on how to open a business. The S2S team are also very patient with people. They are excellent teachers.

Interaction with people has been a good thing for me. Meeting and working as a team with new people has been an advantage for me. I have learnt how to be confident. I am happy with all I have learnt at S2S.”

Sindiswa Ntlantlu

Location & Details of the Project

NPO Registration Number: 181-498 NPO

Physical Address:           

A547 Zakhele Street, Khayelitsha

Telephone:  

0826953809  

BANKING DETAILS:

ACCOUNT HOLDER: STITCH TO STITCH

BANK: STANDARD BANK

ACCOUNT TYPE: BUSINESS

ACCOUNT NUMBER: 10174196375