Wet and cold swop shop 29th May!
A very cold and wet day!
Yesterday 33 lady’s brought their recycling to swop shop despite the rain and cold. Inspired and motivated to come to swop shop knowing that there would be hot soup & rolls to comfort the pain of the cold.
Many of the lady’s rely on the basic food items they purchase at swop shop with their tokens. It seems that as in most developing countries, women bear the brunt of hardship in poor communities. Its encouraging to see that these lady’s are entrepreneurs in their own right, collecting plastic and swapping them for essential and useful items.
Our aim is to create partnerships and spread successful Recycle Swop Shop models across the Western Cape. By partnering together we can harness energy, creativity and resources of communities that will be vital to speeding development.
Almost 3 billion – or nearly half the world’s people – survive on less than 2 dollars a day, according to the World Bank. Poverty: the desperate facts
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Jita
June 4, 2012
This means these ladies love what they doing and they have passion for it.