Hands of Honour
CAPE TOWN UPCYCLING CENTRE - A Hands of Honour Venture
Corporations act us our partners, donating their waste instead of sending to landfill
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Hands of Honour creates jobs in through Upcycling waste and uwatned goods.
Corporations and big business act as our partners, ”donating ” their unwanted good/smaterials , rather than send to landfill.
We collect, saving the company on waste disposal costs.
Where we can , we use this waste to create award-winning tools and furniture that will inspire the next generation of problem solvers ,critical thinkers and leaders.
Our African ECD Classroom on Wheels : Seed Winner : SAB FoundationSocial Innovation Awards 2018
UPCYCLING LIVES AND WASTE
CAPE TOWN UPCYCLING CENTRE - A Hands of Honour Venture
Corporations act us our partners, donating their waste instead of sending to landfill
WELCOME
Hands of Honour creates jobs in through Upcycling waste and uwatned goods.
Corporations and big business act as our partners, ”donating ” their unwanted good/smaterials , rather than send to landfill.
We collect, saving the company on waste disposal costs.
Where we can , we use this waste to create award-winning tools and furniture that will inspire the next generation of problem solvers ,critical thinkers and leaders.
Our African ECD Classroom on Wheels : Seed Winner : SAB FoundationSocial Innovation Awards 2018
UPCYCLING LIVES AND WASTE
CAPE TOWN UPCYCLING CENTRE - A Hands of Honour Venture
In South Africa, lack of space and resources is a reality that hundreds of township early learning centres face daily. Findings from The South African Early Childhood Review revealed that nearly 4 million children under the age of 6 lack access to the critical care and support that is required for their development, which in the long run increases inequalities within South Africa – hindering all social and economic inclusion efforts.
Furthermore:
• 60% of children under the age of 4 do not have access to any form of ECD programs
• Approximately 50% of children below the age of 5 are affected by abject poverty
• Less than 50% of learners who enrolled in Grade 1 in 2002, graduated grade 12 in 2014
Seed Winner: SAB Foundation Social Innovation Awards 2018
Finalist: South African Edu -Week Awards 2016
The Angel Classroom provides an educational Hub for a Pre-school class of 30 learners
Our Solution
Longitudinal studies have shown that early readers continue to get higher grades than their peers through grade school. Reading opens the door to a childs early academic success, imparts a love of learning and leads to success later in life.
The Angel Classroom on Wheels is our solution, a flexible and compact learning tool that will inspire the next generation of problems solvers and leaders.
Here is a summary of the benefits of the Angel Classroom on Wheels:
• A compact and secure storage unit for books and teaching aids
• A central point from which the educator delivers lessons (vital in overcrowded Edu-cares)
• A place where learners can explore the concepts taught, using the teaching aids
• A mobile classroom library with age appropriate reading material
• Easily transforms into Puppet Theatre with Puppets
The unit can be used in a pre-school (aged 2-4 years), foundation phase (Grade R – Grade 3) or intermediate (Grade 4 – Grade 6). It supports three main learning areas:
• Numeracy
• Literacy
• Life skills
There are eight activity boards affixed to the rear that support the main pillars of Early Learning. The unit easily manages to keep a whole classroom engrossed in an educational activity at any given time. See the concentration on the children’s faces and as they play they learn a whole range of skills including literacy, numeracy, life skills, fine-motor skills, spatial skills, sequential skills, shapes, sorting and matching by colour and shades of colour, motor control and co-ordination through threading small pieces, pincer grasp, hand-eye coordination, concentration, thinking skills, perseverance, creativity: making new creations from combined materials. When not in use the unit is closed up, padlocked shut and turned to face the wall so that the posters on the unit are displayed. A real space-saver.
There are also educational aids that also provide activities which develop FINE MOTOR SKILLS ie. Finger dexterity with bead threading, plastic construction, connecting plastic links in a chain, plaiting laces, jigsaw puzzles etc. , MOVEMENT & BALANCE (eg. the use of bean bags) and SPATIAL development (copying patterns from an abacus, completing a jigsaw puzzle by copying a picture). This Angel Classroom on Wheels, as presented, provides an educational Hub for a Pre-schools class of up to 30 learners.
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CAPE TOWN UPCYCLING CENTRE - A Hands of Honour Venture
Hands of Honour design and produce innovative early learning furniture.
Upcycled Furniture
Besides our early learning tools and furniture,we create up-cycled garden furniture, including a lovely range of outdoor benches and tables.
We also offer custom made furniture icluding book shelves, tables, upholstery and anything you can descibe to us.
Our upcycled range include coffee tables made from tyres, Picnic Bench Sets and ECD Activity Boards
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CAPE TOWN UPCYCLING CENTRE - A Hands of Honour Venture
33 tonnes of commercial waste re-purposed
16 community spaces transformed
65 men employed and regained their dignity
4,500 children positively impacted
Collecting obsolete stock from corporate partners
Hands of Honour collects obsolete stock to transform into upcycled goods. Much of this waste is provided through partnerships with the corporate sector and would otherwise end up in landfills. Workers process the waste, either rehabilitating material or stripping goods for sale of parts.
Proceeds from this have two benefits:
First, it provides salaries cialis 20 mg for workers who otherwise have no work options available to themhave no work options available to them.
Second, profits are invested in derelict community spaces, focusing on public spaces which have become havens for anti-social behavior
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Transforming spaces for a safer community
In 2010 the local police at Steenberg Police Station reported that Hands of Honour has been directly responsible for reducing crime.
In particular, the typical crime committed by the men now being employed by Hands of Honour, including contact crimes such as stealing out of cars, has dramatically reduced in these areas.
Creating employment through upcycling corporate waste
Hands acheter cialis en ligne of Honour creates jobs upcycling corporate waste usually heading for landfill. Allow us to collect your obsolete stock or anything deemed ”junk” by you or your company, saving you on waste disposal costs while helping the environment and local community by creating employment and reducing crime. Using the waste materials we create wooden furniture and mobile libraries and learning environments.
According to the latest statistics*, R1,7-billion worth of obsolete stock and waste heads to landfill in South Africa every year. Sadly, South Africa is 30 years behind the rest of the world when it comes to effective waste management and has no plan in place to improve these circumstances.
Hands of Honour is already to using this challenge as a great opportunity for socioeconomic development, by creating jobs and businesses, transforming derelict spaces and reducing reliance on declining natural resources, all the while creating beautiful furniture and learning environments for children in need.
Hands of Honour creates employment in South Africa through upcycling obsolete stock and recyclable items. Corporations are the main providers of this obsolete stock or waste, “donating” their obsolete stock rather than send them on to landfill.
The upcycling programme is simple yet creates jobs and transforms both waste or obsolete stock and derelict spaces. Fifty percent of the profits made from upcycled goods are used for salaries while the other fifty percent is used to fund projects that improve their communities such as creating food gardens and upgrading early learning centres.
So far, nine full and part-time jobs have been created and eleven negative spaces have been transformed into productive ones. A portion of our profits are used to pay the annual school fees of ten poor children in our community. Dozens of men have came through our upcycling programme and have gone onto become upstanding role models in their communities and society in general. One particular success story stands out, Leyton Fillies, a former prison gang member who used to live in a car before coming to Hands of Honour, is now travelling all over South Africa as a Manager for a large company.
Innovative design of Early Learning products
Introducing our award-winning Angle Classroom on Wheels. This is the answer for Early Learning Centres who lack space, especially those in poor townships. The Reading Corner, our innovative mobile, foldable furniture system, solves this problem by taking up very little space when stored or when in use.
Reading corner to puppet theatre
Perhaps the most obvious and the most popular teaching aids are the puppet theatre, which encourge communication skills and can be used by the educators and the learners.
A lack of space is a harsh reality that countless needy Early learning Centres in South Africa have to deal with every day. The Angel Classroom on Wheels is our solution to these difficult circumstances. The learning system is a mobile fold-up furniture system that takes up less than a foot of space when in a stored position. It literally opens up to reveal a world of experiences and information through the books within its confines and comes with Educational Toys installed in the shelves. It also has secret fold-up benches inside, the face is a chalkboard and the upper section is a puppet show display. The whole thing is mobile with a wheel lock function and takes up less than a foot of buy viagra online legally space when in a stored position.
Award winning ideas
The Angel Classroom on Wheels was declared one of the winners in the Swarm Vision Global Innovator’s “The Future of Education” campaign. The competition, held in Silicon Valley, California, called for entries to design pre-school spaces, tools and equipment that re-define early childhood education as well as school furniture and equipment, more suited for creative thought and play. More than 346 entries were received, many of them from experts in the design and educational sectors. The Angel Book Nook won in two categories: Best Idea and Best Visual.
2014 winner of Spark Changemakers of the Year.
Sponsor an Angel Classroom on Wheels
We want to help needy children in Townships enjoy a better learning experience by providing a serene and tranquil space for them to foster a love for reading and learning at an early age.
If your organisation would like to donate an Angel Classroom on Wheels to a struggling Children’s School or Early Learning Centre, please reach out.
$350 is all it takes to create a job whilst giving a child a better reading experience.
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CAPE TOWN UPCYCLING CENTRE - A Hands of Honour Venture
Physical Address: 12 Canal Road
Ottery
Postal Address: Canal Road
Ottery
Postal Code: 7800
Telephone: +27(0)217030360
Mobile: +27(0)721389150
Email: handsofhonour@gmail.com
Website: http://www.handsofhonour.co.za
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Latitude: -34.002188
Longitude: 18.503302