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Alert #1. This project is not supported by a non profit organization yet. I took it upon myself put of frustration.  

Alert #2. Because these young adults find it hard to afford healthy food without asking neighbors I will give small stipends from donations.

While struggling to create income now they are suffering from no running tap water si ce four weeks ago. Hear one of them here: 
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10220999051151041&id=1384811765



I am Nkazi Sinandile aka Nonkazimlo Sinandile. I am volunteer program coordinator founder and director of New Mexico Women's Global Pathways now a flagship educational and micro enterprise program of Immigrant and Refugee Resource Village of Albuquerque.  Both organizations merged in 2017.

My husband and I were born, raised and educated in South Africa and left home in the early eighties to study in the USA.


Alongside volunteers, my husband and I empower women, girls, boys and girls on a voluntary basis since 2006. 

I took up this fund raising campaign project independently of my organization in April this year in rural Butterworth/Gcuwa Eastern Cape South Africa.

I created this campaign because of the girl who gets sent out by her single mother to criss cross the rural township where I live temporarily with my Sister, to beg for food or money weekly. Initially She was coming to our home up to two times a week .

Between January and March She was coming to my Sister's home up to three times per week and that pained me-such exposure to danger of a little girl!

This places girls and boys in danger of molestation, abduction and all forms of danger.  This did not settle well with me and I thought really hard about starting a sewing/and by the road or home food side business training on my own.  I talked to my Sister and She provided sewing and cooking space temporarily.


Why In South Africa.

My husband and I came from the USA  to South Africa mid January this year on a medical emergency trip to visit our sick Son. I hoped to go back home after three weeks, but I could not. My husband left. Our Son has a degenerative medical condition and needs an organ transplant ( still deciding).

I soon observed that sending children house to house  was common practise and that young adults  go house to house to borrow or ask for food or money as well. 

Others including young and grown up men and women came to my Sister's home ( where I reside temporarily) on a weekly basis to ask for piece jobs. My Sister offers them piece jobs as She is able , but does not always have funds to pay them. I understand they go to other homes throughout the village looking for jobs. Outcomes for them are very negative.

My Sister infront of a shack owned by one of the older men doing piece jobs for her.
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I started to realize from talking to those who frequented  my Sister's home,  that it was very difficult for majority of parents, singles and especially uneducated young adults to make ends meet.

With Youth unemployment at 27+percent and a lack of vocational skills training for mostly those living in rural areas, finding and securing jobs, therefore surviving daily seems very difficult.

Most lost their parents when they were very small and struggled to learn in school, dropped out and life without jobs, therefore finding jobs and creating income is very difficult.

There are no government handouts like food stamps, financial assistance.
Organizations that provide emergency or ongoing food assistance or emergency financial helo or assistance with bill payments do not exist.

I decided to talk to a few young  adults more so to the mother of the 7 year old girl about offering them sewing /food business training and they were excited about the idea. I told her they could prepare and sell indigenous foods like magwinyas ( African staple "doughnut or fry bread).

I am adding my name to those who are helping women and men to free themselves from the yoke of poverty.

Please Help four struggling, yet very resilient young adults including the mother of the 7 year old in my homestead Msobomvu, Butterworth Eastern Cape, South Africa break free from daily life of need and poverty.

From the mother of the 7 year old  in particular, I learned a lot about living in deprivation and poverty in my homestead. Her parents died when She was 7 years old from a debilitating disease per link below. She lives a very deprived life. She lost her hope, when her parents died and struggles to carry on life with two kids.

Education and feeding herself and children have become very difficult for her. While She has innate skills, She like the other Young adults and others does not have marketable skill, but is willing and ready to learn a job skill and start a small business. 

She tells me that She is exhausted from going house to house and sending her children to beg for food and struggles to find and keep a job.

She states that She can do anything legal to create income. She earns a child Grant of $56.00 (R800.00) month from the government for both children and cleans my Sister's house one to two times a month and that is never enough to sustain her young family.

R800.00 here buys very little due to inflated prices. Even if She worked, minimum wage is very low in South Africa with most lucky unskilled employed young adults by foreigners making R300.00 ($25.00 per week).
I believe strongly that investment in women, girls, boys and men is a proven path to reduce poverty and that the secret of training is to empower, restore and regenerate people to improve their economic status.

I am asking for monetary support from everyone everywhere to help these young adults help pull themselves from poverty.

Your donations will enable me to buy and provide sewing machines , South African /African indigenous fabrics, sewing materials, notions, two tables to place sewing machines and ingredients for cooking magwinya ( South African doughnuts) or mandazi, puff puff vegetable patties, fries and healthy drinks and water to prepare and sell alongside traditionally inspired bags, aprone and head scarves before I leave for the USA in July this year.

With your support and angel help, I will train them to create 100 bags total like this one in the pic below to sell before I leave them.

After I leave they will receive help from me and hopefully my organization board.  I will ask the board of my organization Immigrant and Refugee Resource Village of Albuquerque to adopt this project.

The goal is to get these four to be able to clothe and shelter their children, put food on their tables and educate them in good schools without any difficulty and never again put their children in danger by sending them out to beg for food.

I would like to offer them some money stipends while training so as to.buy food and stop sending little children begging.

Do You Want to make a difference in the life of this young woman, her children including her 7 year old girl and sibling, and three other young adults? You can do so by donating $5.00, $10.00 or a larger amount as Your financial situation allows or by sharing this fundraiser. 

I assure you that your contribution will be spent for the purpose it is donated and the benefit will be maximized by helping the right persons at the right time!

Below is a supporting letter from my Sister who will also support these young adults in my absence. I had asked her to do a needs assessment for me and my husband ( The South African Orion Duet).
https://drive.wps.com/d/AGnezXbe_fop4K_eiYydFA

Now this -water crisis #2 in 4 months! A water crisis! https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-clean-bottled-water-for-families 


1. https://www.enca.com/news/butterworths-taps-run-dry 2. https://www.goexpress.co.za/2017/08/15/butterworth-faces-dire-water-crisis/ ( 2 years ago my people went through this and now this year). 3. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-10-29-eastern-cape-finally-declared-a-drought-disaster-area/amp/ https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/MC-DroughtDeclaration-Estelle-main.jpg




My sister in her home flanked by the 7 year old girl and her friends. They had come on this Sunday after church asking for cooked food because they said" The church people did not give us food".

On this day my Sister, my Son and my brother visited shack dwellers.
People live here.This man does piece jobs for my Sister and is in his senior years. She would like to learn Sewing. We have two other seniors wanting to create income via sewing training.
Mother of the 7 year old little girl in training in a room where She is now helping new trainees.
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Pic below is of the little girl who begs for food facing dangers like abductions, molestation etcetera.

This is a sample bag and hat that We created from the matetials bought from recent donations.
One of the four students is a 62 year old widowed grandma and mother who struggles to place adequate food 

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Pic below is of the little girl who begs for food facing dangers like abductions, molestation etcetera.Eating with her before leaving my sisters house with the food She came to ask for.

Sometimes the 7 year old brings her friends to my Sister"s  home where I temporarily reside and I share pop corn with them up to three times a week.
                                 
Sample bag that I created last year in the USA. I will teach them to create these.
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October 9 2019.  I call this training a wilderness survival sewing training. We have not bought any food business equipment and ingredients yet - no money. We had to move training from.mt Sister's home to a small living area in my late Mother's property

 The sewing space is suitable for business start ups because the home sits along the main road and within the property there is a  building used as acommunity shop and shoppers see us as We train in sewing and bring sewing business.

Below please see of Pictures of New and three older students at work.  I posted their work that they have completed  since they started training mid September.  We have one sewing machine and hope to but another one next week. 
Each teach OneWorking from a chair -No other tableOne of two young men in program lost a water works contract in August and struggles to find jobs.
Sewing takes place in her home where training space  is limited. We no longer sew at my Sister's home.

You cannot see her but She is one of those trained five months ago and because of lack of tables and space is laying out and pinning fabrics from the couch . We literally lay fabric on a couch because even the kitchen has a small table with very limited space.Same lady in above pic.She and another student  created a reversible bag while in training for first time alongside another one in 2 and half hours.This was their second day of training and had 3 hours on their first day of training- very determined to rise out of piverty.

Young lady modelling her reversible bag per above pic.She trained alongside (.both very new to sewing) young lady above and pic of her modelling her creation is below

The bag that was created last week with left over material that came from jeans that one of our students had asked us to mend. There is now a very high demand for this bags, but We lack fabrics.
First mending job for this student from the first group. She supports new students while selling her creations and using same machine for further training. (We only have one sewing machine).
Other side of the jean bag in very high demand.

She is showing off her reversible bag the first ever sewn product.

Same small living area but great seamstresses/business owners are being produced from here until We find a larger space and adequate materials  tables, ironing boards etc. 
Teaching three students at once.

Lonely sewing machine till next week  ( October 15th when We get a new one. Six more urgently needed.Small bags for coin, keys, eye glasses, etc from small pieces of left over fabricsShe is the mother of the 7 year old mentioned as the reason I started this fund raiser. She is holding one of the small bags She made. Very exhausted young single mom of two expecting a baby in December this year, but still hustling and sewing for She needs money very badly.

Bags the above lady makes

Sewing the bag that She is holding in the previous pic.That is me holding one of the small bags using the miracle sewing machineSample of some of the bags made 5 months ago when We had some fabrics and only 3 students. We are now up to 9 students with no fabrics She is 62 years old and much older than the rest of the students who are in their early thirties and forty's. This is her first time sewing and is modelling her first ever self made bag.

One of the young men in the first group of trained students cutting fabrics from the only space available in that house . He is bringing in a lot of mending and patchwork jobs.

Thank You. Remember all donation sizes are welcomed and appreciated. 

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Nkazi Sinandile
Organizer
Albuquerque, NM

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