Our first project: Building Skills Project
completed January 06
Our launch
project, a building skills initiative, was completed in January 2006.
With the help of a local builder, four young men from the
Bergmanshoogte settlement of Philippolis were taught basic bricklaying,
plastering and painting skills whilst constructing a new community
centre. Independence ZA funded the wages and some of the materials
required to construct the community centre. The community centre,
serving as a crèche, opened in January 2006.
Six months after
completion of the school all the apprentices are in employment, working
for builders in Philippolis.
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