Creative Skills Factory's 'HUB' in Stanford

2022 has been an exciting year of growth for all of us at Creative Skills Factory - we hope that it has been for you too...

The renovations of our HUB in Stanford have been ongoing and thankfully, we're now able to offer after-school workshops to the children living in the area in the rooms on the ground floor of our beautiful new building.

It is such a relief not to have to 'hunt' for spaces in Stanford to run our workshops in anymore. Our building we fondly refer to as our HUB these days, has really impacted our work in the most positive of ways.

It is our pleasure and privilege to also now be able to hold training workshops for our Creative Skills Factory team in the new facilities.

Local artist, Tracy Algar, has been running art sessions for the facilitators which are filled with ideas and techniques they can use in the after-school workshops with the children in their own communities.

THANK YOU, artists, Tracy Algar and Antje Shone, for facilitating art workshops in Stanford and Masakhane.

The children and facilitators have enjoyed these workshops very much.

In the extra mural workshops, the children have been busy with amazing projects - all with the aim of building their life skills using creativity in a safe and joyful space.

And we are not stopping.

Our journey continues, we are starting to renovate the upstairs rooms in our building.

Our plan for the upstairs level is to create a beautiful study room and a library, where children will have a quiet place to do their homework in, to do research and study, to read in or even a place where they can be tutored.

We want to give the children a space for education.

Orca Wireless in Stanford is providing us with free wifi which is making a huge difference in accessing information through the internet and this will be a wonderful tool for learning for the children who will study in our HUB.

THANK YOU, Orca Wirelss.

For us to create this very essential space upstairs for studying, we need support, it's going to be pricey so we are requesting help with this.

Please assist us if you can, with any type of donation.

We will be needing tables and chairs, eating utensils and kitchen small appliances such as a kettle and toaster, curtains or material, screens, old computers, story books and educational books for young children and youth, educational toys and puzzles, shelving, and anything else you may have that isn't being used that you think we would be able to use.

We will appreciate any help we can get to make this space for the children who don't have a place to learn in and very little, or actually, no resources available to them.

And, a reminder, that Creative Skills Factory is able to issue a Section 18A SARS receipt for donations received.