Able Stitch helps keeps babies warm this winter
Through a non-profit organisation run by her mother, Emily Strydom headed to Princess Alice Adoption Home in Westcliff, and handed over donated, handmade hoodies to babies in need.
The efforts of Able Stitch, a Roosevelt Park based non-profit organisation, saw orphans of Princess Alice Adoption Home become the recipients of warm, handmade, fleece hoodies, which come right in time for the predicted weekend cold front.
Able Stitch up-skills vulnerable and unemployed people. Their mission is simply to up-skill these people so they have a positive impact on the lives of vulnerable children in various communities.
At one of the organisation’s earliest meetings, to discuss how they would be skilling up those vulnerable, was five-year-old Emily, daughter to founder, Lizzie Strydom, who came up with the novel idea to have them be skilled in the production of hoodies, which would then be donated to orphanages.
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@caxtonjoburgnorth Emily Strydom at Princess Alice Adoption Home in Westcliff where she helped hand out hoodies to babies right in time for those cold winter days. Video: Neo Phashe #caxtonlocalnews #caxtonlocalmedia #westcliff ♬ original sound – Caxton Joburg North
So, an easy-to-understand design for the construction of these hoodies was put together, and the whole process began.
When she was little girl, Strydom would raise money for orphaned children, who, since then, have played a huge role in her life. “When Emily was 2 years old, we would host Easter egg hunts. Those eggs she found, she would take to a Brixton orphanage,” said Strydom, hence orphans became an equally important feature in Emily’s life too.
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On June 25, Emily, armed with bag full of hoodies and a hand full of flowers picked from her garden, headed to the Westcliff-based orphanage, where she handed out flowers and hoodies to help keep babies warm through winter. Her smile, just as infectious as her warm gesture.
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