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“The group now meets weekly to start working on making jewellery! We're very excited about it.”
The Prestbury Methodist Church in Pietermaritzburg is a participating church in turn the tide 4 children’s (ttt4c) SEED strategy to equip local churches to reach vulnerable children in their communities. They have started a Jewels of Hope project as part of ttt4c’s Capacity Building phase with SEED churches.
This extract is from Diana’s (Prestbury Methodist Church’s project leader) newsletter to ttt4c.
"We are a project in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, invited to become part of the Jewels of Hope Project. This involves a volunteer facilitator working with five selected children over a three year period. They will all learn to make really beautiful jewellery (which means they'll begin to get a little money as we market this). But they will also be given life skills training and a chance to relate to a caring adult in their weekly connect group meetings. It's a very carefully thought out programme that is already running in Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Gauteng and Malawi.
Beauty, a community worker, suggested the names of two ladies to be sent for the initial training. We've selected five children to form the first connect group, with the next five in the wings for the next stage four months later.
Training for the two leaders (and myself as coordinator) took place at the end of January, and the group now meets weekly to start working on making jewellery!
We're very excited about it."
turn the tide 4 children empowers local churches to meet the needs of vulnerable children through sustainable community initiatives. For more information go to www.ttt4c.org |