Saturday, 8 June 2013

Beautiful Boitumelo


In the middle of Hillbrow, at the Lutheran Church, is the oasis of the Boitumelo Sewing Project. This lighthouse in the middle of poverty is a creative community project that just blows you away. With the poverty, high crime, domestic abuse, drugs, HIV/AIDS, refugees, and prostitution, here was a safe place where these women and men are skilling up to make beautiful by stitching lives back together.

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