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1 OPERATION TURNAROUND
Healing and empowering through creative expression.Operation Turnaround involves:
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Creative recycling and healing art workshops which empower disadvantaged children, teachers and caregivers.Creative recycling competitions which encourage and reward creativity, resourcefulness and imagination |
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Exhibitions of work generated by competitions and workshops which celebrate achievements and build self-esteem. |
Current projects include:
The Thuthukani Art Group with disabled children in Umlazi.
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"I feel good when I’m drawing. I do lovely things I don’t know until I get to know them. I don’t feel lonely. I don’t feel sleepy," Thabisile Majola. "I started art at the end of 1996. It was the first time in my life I felt happy." Khetha Lukhele.
Art workshops are held weekly providing the only supervised out-of-school activity for physically disabled young people living with no proper supervision or care in run-down hostels in Umlazi. The workshops enrich their lives, teach skills, and develop self-esteem.
The future of this group is in question because the hostels and school are under threat of closure
Creative art workshops in rural KZN in Msinga district.
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2 S.C.R.A.P.- Self-help Creative Recycling Achievement Project.
SCRAP looks at creative ways of
generating income from waste. Ideas are developed and shared at workshops with unemployed
and disabled youth and low-income caregivers. Marketing strategies and
outlets are explored.
Objectives
- To work with unemployed young people from formerly disadvantaged communities, including youth with disabilities.
- To develop and share original ideas for useful and saleable items to make from waste.
- To teach necessary skills and assist those needing basic business skills training.
- To help promote and develop outlets for work.
- To continually extend the range of ideas and products and involve more young people.
- To set up income-generating projects that become self-supporting and eventually independent.
High profile
creative recycling projects in public places aim to raise awareness of creative ways to
re-use waste, provide temporary employment and work experience and build self-confidence
and esteem. In 1998 SCRAP built a huge waste Xmas tree outside Durban City
Hall. During the year-end 1999-2000 SCRAP angels made from used beverage cans and
bearing the message Peace and hope in 2000. Ukuthula nethemba ngo 2000 kept watch
over the city.
(left) Giant waste Xmas tree and
(below) the team that built it. December 1999 
3 PEACE OASIS/UMTHOMBO WOKUTHULA
Peace Oasis is a peace awareness initiative to build
a will for peace, nourish a climate where it can flourish and support healing art work in
violence-affected communities. Held annually in Durban since 1996, the strategy can be
used anywhere by anyone at any time.
In the week before Christmas we put tables with paper, pens and crayons outside Durban City Hall, invite passers-by to express their hopes for peace on paper and hang up their pictures and messages to make an al frecso peace gallery .
Messages from Peace Oasis 1999Change + challenges = choices. We're all response-able - able to respond with peace or violence.
Peace is not the absence of war! Before you make peace with the world, make peace with yourself. Let peace prevail.
Our children deserve to live in peace. Let us make sure they do.
Let peace begin in our home. Peaceful 2000 to all.
Bury your guns and plant flowers.