Our Dreams Chair has been sold !!!!!!! A dream fulfilled! Sale of Dreams for Africa Chair makes KZN Craft Hub possible Hillcrest AIDS Centre Trust (HACT) warmly invites you to join staff and crafters on Friday 19 September to celebrate the recent sale of its world-renowned Dreams for Africa chair. Proceeds from the chair – which has been sold to a private buyer for R 850,000 - will be used to build a brand new craft centre at HACT’s Hillcrest premises, with the aim of making it the craft hub of KwaZulu-Natal. The celebration will take place at 10am at the Longmynd Art Gallery, located behind the new VickyChristina’s restaurant at 28 Old Main Road, Hillcrest. There will be photo and interview opportunities with the crafters, and a chance to see the chair as well as some of our craft projects in action. Currently, more than 350 women impacted by HIV/AIDS from impoverished communities across the Valley of 1000 Hills generate an income from beading, sewing and crafts through HACT’s Woza Moya income-generating project. The shop sells work on behalf of other self-help projects, non-profit organisations and local entrepreneurs, which in turn supports a further 650 crafters from across KZN. The new craft centre will increase this impact and create many more jobs and income possibilities. Once voted the most beautiful object in South Africa at the Design Indaba, the chair is being exhibited at the Longmynd Gallery, along with photographs depicting the chair and people who have sat in it, in various unusual contexts and locations around the world. Its sale marks the fulfilment of a dream envisaged by Woza Moya manager, Paula Thomson, when the chair was first exhibited at the 2011 Design Indaba in Cape Town: “I lay in bed one night and dreamt that a group of women impacted by poverty and HIV/AIDS could create enough money from selling the Dreams for Africa chair to build a big, spacious craft centre to replace the current one which is cramped and bursting at the seams. And from this craft centre, they could generate income to feed their families, and empower themselves and many others. This dream is now becoming a reality with the sale of the chair. We are all very excited and moved by this news”. The colourful, hand-beaded chair has enabled ordinary people and celebrities alike to dream about future possibilities for themselves, and for South Africa, whilst seated on the chair. On its journey, the chair has raised more than R 500,000 towards training and employment-generating projects run by Woza Moya. If you wish to attend the celebration, please contact: Jess Southey, Woza Moya Craft and Marketing Assistant on email: [email protected]; Tel. 0829413502; or T: 0317655866 Contacts Jess Southey, Woza Moya Craft and Marketing Assistant on email: [email protected]; Tel. 0829413502; or T: 0317655866
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:43:12 +0000
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