Calling All Corporations/Business !! Want to be seen as a force for the greater good ? Hands of Honour is a registered and award winning NPO that is creating jobs with the junk/obsolete stock you throw away.Partner with us by allowing us to collect your obsolete stock or unwanted junk.We change lives and spaces with it.
Hands of Honour brings together three best-practices:
(1)While ‘up-cycling’ or reusing waste materials has been done informally by waste pickers scouring the dumps, the organisation works directly with the waste generators to formalise this process, representing something new in South Africa. Corporations are the main ‘donors’ of waste to the organisation, donating rather than disposing of their waste;
(2)Hands of Honour’s Job Training Programme provides skills and confidence to those members of society who have ‘checked out’. This both increases employment and rehabilitates the workers;
(3)This process funds urban renewal initiatives, focusing on those areas that are identified by the community as being flash points for crime.
Taken together, these elements result in a programme that can sustain itself and contribute to a greener city, job creation and reclaiming derelict urban spaces.
The organisation has attained the following awards:
* Winner : Spark* SA Cgangemaker of the Year 2014
*Winner UnLtd South Africa Award 2013;
*Shortlisted -SEED Award 2014
* Offcial project : World Design Capital CT 2014
*Nominated for the Rockefeller Foundation 100 Innovators Next Century Award 2013;
* Finalist in the Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award 2012.
Hands of Honour brings together three best-practices:
(1)While ‘up-cycling’ or reusing waste materials has been done informally by waste pickers scouring the dumps, the organisation works directly with the waste generators to formalise this process, representing something new in South Africa. Corporations are the main ‘donors’ of waste to the organisation, donating rather than disposing of their waste;
(2)Hands of Honour’s Job Training Programme provides skills and confidence to those members of society who have ‘checked out’. This both increases employment and rehabilitates the workers;
(3)This process funds urban renewal initiatives, focusing on those areas that are identified by the community as being flash points for crime.
Taken together, these elements result in a programme that can sustain itself and contribute to a greener city, job creation and reclaiming derelict urban spaces.
The organisation has attained the following awards:
* Winner : Spark* SA Cgangemaker of the Year 2014
*Winner UnLtd South Africa Award 2013;
*Shortlisted -SEED Award 2014
* Offcial project : World Design Capital CT 2014
*Nominated for the Rockefeller Foundation 100 Innovators Next Century Award 2013;
* Finalist in the Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award 2012.
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