Jullard Creations
juma mkwela
Jullard Creations was formed soon after the xenophobia outbreak in South Africa in 2008 when we (Juma & Willard) were leading one of the refugees camp and spent a night trying to think what exactly was the cause of xenophobia--it might have been poverty, lack of education or just hate, so we thought of breaking it down and bringing peace into the communities by engaging with the youth and run art classes because the youth were the ones who started xenophobia. Even though we lost our property and belongings, we were left with our dignity so the only way was to forgive and forget and use art as a tool to unify people and be together as one.
Jullard Creations is a collective that empowers people from marginalized communities to generate their own income by producing hand made art & craft using different techniques.
The program is designed specifically to equip and enhance our communities in skills development. It is our concern to help the communities realize their capabilities by integrating and involving them in working towards a better tomorrow. This program is designed in such a way that the (youth) are inspired to focus on achieving self sustainability, abstain from areas and activities of self destruction e.g. drug abuse, pre-marital sex, alcoholism and crime. We believe that by integration and skills development we would have provided a step towards, if not all, that is needed to make our youth realize their potential
Africa as a whole has talented young artists, so we need to harness those talents from early age, art has the potential to change, make a difference, drive and develop our communities.
We run entrepreneurship and creativity workshops in communities. We work with more than 100 kids in the khayelitsha community of cape town to paint murals, produce art that is exhibited on our annual exhibition in November. We also run a theatre club with the children.
In 2009 we facilitated a 6 months creativity workshop at an orphanage and 15 children were equipped with craft skills that have equipped them to
be able to produce their own products.
During the soccer 2010 world cup we did a project with the privileged children and produced some art using recycled materials. This was a good example of promoting recycling and having cleaner communities
In December 2010 we facilitated a creativity workshop in Hermanus (cape town ) with children from different backgrounds and after three weeks of hard working a book and a community newspaper was produced with amazing stories , some of imagination and some or real life , it was so interesting in seeing how the kids see and wish their communities to be .
Also in 2010 we were given opportunity to work with the children from a boys home of which some of them used to be part of gangs and some were rejected by their parents so it was a great challenge on how to deliver and make them see the potential but through working together and giving them extra love we did produce some art that was exhibited and some of the proceeds went to their home.
In 2011 we continued working with the 100 kids and do some different activities and on the 16th of June they came in 2nd at a youth arts festival which was a great honour to them and the community .
We are working with the boys home also preparing some art for the annual exhibition and doing some murals around their home.
Our greatest accomplishment so far is that as Jullard Creations and through the works that we have done there has been a great impact on communities, individuals and not only just by giving skills but sometimes it is just seeing the need and sharing an idea to solve for better. We are proud of our service , there are small things that we tend to ignore but without realizing that it can make a great difference in someone’s life.
In the years that we have been working with the communities
there are challenges that we meet sometimes like communication, commitment,
ignorance, literacy but we have learned to suspend, listen, give love,
find and serve the need, to deliver and be faithful.
DREAMS
We are going to the Kalahari Desert in September 2011. Through our research we found out that there is a need of empowerment and community building as many people have nothing to do so they end up turning to alcohol and drugs.
We have already made some contacts with the Kalahari community and there is a group already waiting for us that would love learn , digest and be able to own their small businesses and build their community by proceeding a percentage of their profits into a Nursery school for better education to every child in Kalahari.
Our vision is to create social change by giving them some business skills that will help them to own some businesses that will help run a nursery school and give full education to every child in Kalahari. The businesses are not only focusing on arts and craft it is the people of Kalahari who got their business ideas so we will help them to make their dreams come true . We want to leave with at least 3-5 businesses running. We want to start with empowering the women as they are the ones who carry most of the burden. There is a group of women that we identified with different ideas and only during the course we will see which businesses suits the Kalahari environment.
Peace to everyone
We all can make a difference.
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Sasha Fisher
Willard Kambeva
Hi Juma and Willard,Thank you so much for your post about Jullard Creations. What a powerful story. I'll mention to the rest of the group here that I spent time in South Africa with Willard and Juma in 2009 and they are very inspiring to see in action! They have greatly influenced where I am today and why I believe so strongly in local solutions and community based social entrepreneurs.
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Jullard creations is a collective that empowers people from marginalized communities to generate their own income by producing art and craft using traditional African techniques!
How Matters
members discover the value of their contributions can be found at:
Wilkinson-Maposa, S. & Fowler, A. (2009). The poor philanthropist I-
IV: How and why the poor help each other. Cape Town: Southern Africa-
United States Center for Leadership and Public Values.
http://www.gsb.uct.ac.za/clpv/default.asp?intPageNr=37 Highly
recommended!
Also: The Barefoot Collective. (2009). The Barefoot Guide to Working
with Organizations and Social Change. Cape Town: Community Development
Resource Association. http://www.barefootguide.org
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