Lake Victoria Children Tailoring Shop.

Hello again.

This Progress Report up to  December 2011 was sent by  Mr. Alex Magaga recently and we'd like to share it with you.

The Lake Victoria Children Tailoring Shop was funded by the Diplomatic Spouse Group, based in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.  It is a sustainable project to generate income and fund the activities such as the Children's Feeding Programme and Health care.  It also buys children's exercise books; makes and mends uniforms for the children at the centre, and the shop has become a source of uniform and other clothing materials for many other disadvantaged children in the community.

The project is currently generating around T shs 7,000 daily.  (This is equivalent to £3.50 per day), by doing mending and the repair to clothes for members of the community.  The project has bought  more learning materials  and a better quality of food for the children.


Nineteen sets of uniforms were made and given free to children at the centre since May 2010.

Eight sets of uniforms were made and given to vulnerable children in the community since the project started.

Six teenagers (five girls and one boy) from disadvantaged backgrounds are learning vocational tailoring skills in the shop.

"The LVC Tailoring shop project is transforming lives, we now need our own source of clothing material to run more successfully and independently", Says Mama Lucy, one of the LVC volunteers in the shop.  At the moment, all clothing materials are bought from other shops.  The LVC shop does not currently have the capacity to source materials.

In 2011/16 they plan to expand the scope of the project, from being a tailoring shop doing only repair services, to a busy shop doing everything; repair (mending); selling tailor made clothes; selling clothing materials and other tailoring essentials. 

This little team of dedicated volunteers dream of doubling the profit when they can also sell materials as well as the tailoring service.  Currently the society is paying approximately £13.50 rent  per month for the room which the ladies use.  The costs for the other five rooms which LVC rent is also £13.50 per room per month.  Considering these expenses, we feel that they are doing a tremendous job in feeding; clothing and supporting not only the children at the centre, but others in the community as well.

Besides a variety of materials, they also need an over locking machine, cottons, elastic, zips etc. to help make this dream a reality.  The more money they can generate, the more children they can afford  to feed and care for - changing the lives of orphans and the most vulnerable children for the better and integrating them into society.
                                         

We'd also like to share this photo with you.

The Diplomatic Spouse Group recently sent some new shoes for the children and  we thought you'd like to see a photo of them - so happy - with their new gifts. 

Until next time, keep well.

Diane and Derek