A group of women took scraps of sample fabric and a bag of zippers and turned them into 330 beautifully handmade pencil bags; showing that sometimes all you need is a bit of time and love to give back to others.
Johannesburg, South Africa (08 February 2024) – Kindness Like Confetti Johannesburg ran their annual stationery drive to help children heading to school have all the things they need for the start of the first term. A group of ladies donated handmade pencil bags, perfect for all the goodies.
A group called ‘Kindness like Confetti’ (KLC), based in Linden, Gauteng, spreads kindness far and wide! KLC is a registered non-profit organisation with six main projects – collecting and distributing sanitary products, a feeding scheme, a knitting project called The Joseph Jersey Project, a dignity bag project to support victims of rape, trauma and abuse, Project Uplift, collecting new and gently used bras for women and an animal welfare support project. There are four additional KLC branches including Cape Town, Gqberha, Knysna and Pretoria.
This year, they helped 330 children in Gauteng with school stationery and beautiful pencil bags. Tshepisong Primary School’s grade 3 and 4 classes were overjoyed by the donation received.
So many people made this happen and thanks have gone around Facebook for every effort and donation sent in. The pencil bags were lovingly sewn by Shiree Vorster, Meena, Ann Sauders, Ané Smit, Claire, Margaret Houliston and Pat Duvel. Ben Delissen was also honoured for fixing 2 machines that died under the pressure.
Simple projects like this make all the difference. 330 children will cherish their pencil bags, filled with much-needed stationery. These pencil bags will live beyond this schooling year and will likely go on to be used year after year.
You can find out more about Kindness Like Confetti and how to support the various projects via Facebook here.
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