Siyavuma and Masekhethele
Masek projects driven by Siyavuma Foundation, undertakes to uplift over 200 informal sewing groups, improving their skills by continual training and development with custom designs or catalogue ranges.
Over and above the financial support offered to the women as a Community Women and Youth Empowerment Initiative, we offer technical and business training, facilitate work opportunities, and a run a range of sustainability programmes. The first programme thats already begun is working to increase food security, especially in these trying times, by funding, building and developing sustainable food gardens and training the community to maintain them.
The project of Masekhethele is to encourage over 350 women on the landfills to collect their waste. They earn a fair wage from Thinavuoo Recycling who is a buy back centre, and black owned company. Below are the assisted villages in Phalaborwa
No | Area | Number of Households | Number of People |
1 | Makhushane Village | 5 866 | 19 243 |
2 | Majeje Village | 8 067 | 35 663 |
3 | Mashishimale Village | 3 871 | 14 876 |
4 | Maseke Village | 2 130 | 7 830 |
5 | Selwana Village | 4 165 | 20 600 |
6 | Namakgale Township | 7 606 | 25 808 |
7 | Phalaborwa Town | 4 027 | 14 469 |
8 | Lulekani Township | 5 383 | 12 148 |
| Totals | 41 115 | 150 637 |
Working together the Masek uplifts communities aiding in sustainability and job creation
Petco, the leading company in recycling plastic bottles in South Africa, is spearheading the operation to make recycling a circular economy, where the value of a plastic bottle continues indefinitely. In partnership with Masekhethele this circular economy has created jobs for a large amount of waste collectors, informal tailors and beaders.