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When Ade and Christina went to South Africa at the tail end of 2017 to see if they could do 'something to help', they didn't have any idea what that might look like. Seven years on, we have successfully sponsored one apprentice in a firm that has trained him, and we are still interested in pursuing more opportunities like this. We ran one course with top heavy management, and realised that wasn't a good model. We have run four sewing courses, three of which resulted in jobs, employment or some form of greater stability for our trainees. The fourth imploded thanks to local politics. Another opportunity for us to learn what doesn't work. We have partnered with Juja Clay to train potters, again with jobs or increased stability for our 'alumni'. In the last couple of years we have run successful brick-laying courses in partnership with brick manufacturers. A perennial problem is finding trainers in South Africa so Ade and now one of his colleagues have donated their time and holidays to running courses in South Africa. One of our projected courses was cancelled – this is the door that closed on us recently – more or less at the same moment we had an approach, out of the blue, from a game lodge who wanted training for some of their workers in bricklaying, and we became aware that our partner, Meshack, at Juja clay is trying to build a dormitory to house some of his apprentices. So, now we are hoping to help Meshack, and thereby help our trainees, and provide a genuine building project on which to train some bricklayers. 
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