Sparrow Society has created an innovative training and business support app for their SewBoss Network – a thriving network of home-based sewing businesses run by 95% women! Providing smartphones and app training has taken their businesses into the tech-savvy future. The focus for our SewBoss Network for 2021 is to help them take their businesses […]
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Sparrow Society has partnered with A21 to do a sewing skills training program with survivors of human trafficking. The ladies are now equipped and ready to join Sparrow Society’s SewBoss Network which creates opportunities for home-based work for seamstresses across Cape Town. This allows them an opportunity not only to earn a viable income which
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We are so excited to launch We Rise Coffee! Our newest brand in the Sparrow family. We Rise Coffee Monthly Subscription Rated 0 out of 5From: R86.00 / month Select options We Rise Coffee (1kg) Rated 0 out of 5R265.00 Add to cart We Rise Ground Coffee (250g) Rated 0 out of 5R86.00 Add to
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Still I Rise BY MAYA ANGELOU You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you?Why are you beset with gloom?’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wellsPumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns,With
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We are so excited to announce the launch of a brand new project, the YES Girl Project. Y.E.S. stands for “Young Entrepreneur Society” as was started as a response to the inequalities in secondary eduction for girls, particularly in rural areas. Sparrow Society’s YES Girl Project gives high school aged girls not only to finish
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Community Hero Campaign in partnership with Elizabeth Arden Sparrow Society and Elizabeth Arden have joined forces again to bring encouragement and a bit of spoils for a special lady in South Africa who is going above and beyond to serve her community. For the month of January, we have chosen to honour an incredible woman,
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Community Hero Campaign in partnership with Elizabeth Arden This month Sparrow Society and Elizabeth Arden have chosen to honour an incredible “Mother of a Multitude”!. Congratulations to Gerda Scheepers, a volunteer school administrator at Ubuntu School and House Mother at the school residence, Ubuntu House, where she looks after and acts as a true mother
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Community Hero Campaign in partnership with Elizabeth Arden This month Sparrow Society and Elizabeth Arden have chosen to honour an incredible woman whose passion, dedication and commitment to end human slavery has helped many trafficked women and men in South Africa find freedom. Congratulations to Katie Modrau, Country Manager for A21 South Africa, a global
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Community Hero Campaign in partnership with Elizabeth ArdenSouth Africa is full of amazing world-changing women and we are so excited to launch a new campaign in partnership with Elizabeth Arden SA to share their stories with the world. These women are the hidden heroes of our communities who far too often go unnoticed and under
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We’ve launched a business course for our amazing Creators! We have so many talented creatives working with us and our dream is to see each and every one of them succeed in chasing their own dreams. We have budding fashion designers, leather workers, screen printers and even a shoe designer! But as any entrepreneur knows,
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