Make a Beanie Teach a Child

The MylifE Foundation, in partnership with Heart Space Hogsback invite you to co-create a Train-the-Trainer Arts and Culture Development Centre for Youth in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, by making a beanie and raising awareness.

Why? 

MylifE began on the streets of Cape Town, South Africa, working with and successfully rehabilitating hundreds of disempowered youth living on the streets. During their ten years in operation they discovered that the majority of poverty stricken youth that land up on the streets and in prisons come from rural areas seeking better opportunities. 

The MylifE team embarked on a journey through the Eastern Cape (one of the largest rural provinces in SA) with two goals in mind: 1) to find out what the impact is on community with decreasing numbers of youth and 2) what can be done to create sustainable communities that prevent the youth from leaving with false hopes. 

The Solutions

·        The MylifE Train-the-Trainer Village at Glenara (areas of focus: Green Building (Housing/Shelter), Food Production (Permaculture principles), Alternative Energy Technologies, Water Sanitation, Waste Management and Environmental Consciousness)

·        The Train-the-Trainer Skills Development Centre at Heart Space (areas of focus: Holisitic Life Skills (health and wellbeing, communication, goal setting, motivation), Homesteading Skills, Entrepreneurial Skills, Skills Development through Arts and Culture, Recycling, Volunteering) 

The Make a Beanie Teach a Child campaign aims to raise awareness and funds for the Skills Development Centre by inviting you, the community, to make beanies for us to sell. Funds will go towards starting  our first skills development project: the Needle Work Program. Our goal is to train female youth (16-24yrs) in areas of crocheting, knitting and sewing. 

How You can Get Involved

1. Make a beanie. Heck, make lots of beanies! In fact, the more you make, the higher your chance of winning the monthly give-away prize.

2. Get someone to take a photo of you making the beanies as well as one with you and the finished beanies. These will appear on the "Wool of Fame" and on our Facebook Page.

3. Send the beanies, along with a short hand-written message of hope and love to the youth of the Eastern Cape to:

PO Box 109

Hogsback

5721

Eastern Cape

RSA

4. The beanies are sold to raise awareness and the messages will be displayed all around Hogsback.

5. Profits go towards the Hearts and Hands Train-the-Trainer Skills Development Centre for the Youth of Hogsback and Eastern Cape.

Thanks for stipping by and spreading the word - we appreciate you!