Alex women fight poverty with skills
ALEXANDRA -– Some of the students attend the four-month intensive sewing course and are hardly able to switch on a sewing machine.
The Union of Jewish Women’s Sewing Empowerment School recently held a graduation of its Alex students whose numbers have been severely curtailed by the Covid-19 protocols.
Established in 2010 to contribute towards alleviating skills shortages and poverty in the township, the school has so far equipped more than 80 women with life-changing new skills.
The union’s office and project manager Vanessa Weltman said some of the women have since found employment in the clothing and related industries while others have opened their own enterprises.
“This is all due to generous donors that have enabled us to run this school and give valuable skills opportunities to the students who would otherwise be languishing in poverty.
“The union prides itself in making a contribution and ensuring the women can now put food on their table from the skills they acquired at the school,” Weltman added.
She said some of the students who attended the four-month intensive sewing course were hardly able to switch on a sewing machine and they completed the course with a lot of enthusiasm and determination to use their newly acquired skills.
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