Benefits of using our training program.

UPCYCLE – The Green Creative – creates green solutions for your waste, the reinvestment in the environment through reinventing waste and giving it a new purpose as opposed to recycling it.

UPCYCLE focuses on developing skills, transferring knowledge and training individuals to create and develop products from waste, creating sustainable job opportunities for unemployed people with the objective to develop the up-cycle of skills implemented and supported by effective CSI projects.

By empowering and training people to do something that can generate income & uplift their community, we are grooming skills that are invaluable to our country and our people.

We work with corporates and government institutions to assist and support them to elevate the pressure that society faces with the rampant overburdening socioeconomic crisis by creating products from their waste, and helping them implement CSI projects that grow entrepreneurs out of waste.

UPCYCLE helps companies to promote themselves with green branding and marketing messages that include their green standing. This means that the marketing department can unlock the value in its own corporate gifts and functions and reduce its overall marketing costs.

Trainingand development

Training and skills development is an everlasting benefit. UPCYCLE’s unique approach to training and development requires more than just teaching someone a skill. We know and understand the requirements involved and the need to provide continual development, sustainability, motivation and self-worth. We are therefore more in the business of developing one individual to their full potential than mass short term training workshops.

When people are trained to use and understand materials the creativity flows from knowledge to ideas and opportunities. It requires an entrepreneurial mind set, appropriate skills and market knowledge to convert these ideas and opportunities into economic success.

UPCYCLE covers so many aspects of creativity and waste material awareness as well as design knowledge that it is not possible to impart these skills and knowledge to an individual in a few short sessions.

To take an individual or group of individuals to their full potential we have to spend a generous amount of time with them, showing them the skills and teaching them about waste materials while at the same time teaching design, strategy, implementation, marketing and a full array of skills in order to become prosperous self-sustaining entrepreneurs.

We believe in building an on-going support and motivational relationship with the crafters we train and promote. Our training is longer and much more intensive than standard programs as we are building entrepreneurs not just up-skilling a labour-force.

Trainingand development

Upcycle Orange farm project

Background

The Orange Farm community is a semi-rural, undeveloped area 40km South of Johannesburg. The township is one of the largest informal settlements in South Africa, with most estimates giving a population of 1 million people. The challenges that are faced by this community are high levels of poverty; low levels of literacy; lack of basic services; lack of access to justice and health care facilities; lack of consultation between the local government and community members; high levels of violence (generally alcohol-related); lack of employment which leads to increased crime.

HJ blue Upcycle have spent a few years in this community on many levels and hope to continue making a difference to the people in Orange Farm one bit of junk at a time. (From teaching a group of ladies to make teddies using scrap fabric and another project about making products from waste to generate an income for themselves., we have become very attached to the people from Orange farm as they have passion and drive to make a difference to their lives.)

Progress

Upcycle have now partnered with the Human Rights Center in Orange Farm to jointly make inroads into uplifting the community – we want to empower them economically by teaching them the skills needed to upgrade the recycling centre into a more holistic Upcycle centre, where they can make PRODUCTS from the waste that can be sold at a higher value than straightforward recycling can currently produce.

The Orange Farm Human Rights Advice Centre was established to alleviate the suffering of the community members through sustainable grassroots initiatives aimed at local empowerment, to improve access to health services and justice and educational opportunities in order to fulfill basic human rights. They also aimed to make the community aware of their rights enshrined in the Constitution and to go further and engage (and influence) public policy processes which would lead to accountability at local government level. The community still continue to visit the premises seeking its services. This is why stakeholders in the community met to look at possibilities of resurrecting the centre and why the centre is still in operation despite the many obstacles it faces such as funding, land ownership, proper facilities and poor service

The Advice Centre assists in access to information; referrals, legal advice and legal assistance on a wide range of issues concerning accessing of birth certificates & identification documents; accessing social grants; labour mediation; evictions; domestic violence; child abuse, disability issues, unemployment and Income Generating Projects. They also provide assistance to refugees and asylum seekers.

In addition, the centre runs a daycare centre called Itsoseng. It was first established for the children of employees at the advice centre but there was a greater demand that was needed to be fulfilled in the greater Orange Farm community. Therefore they opened the day care centre to all members of the community who were interested.

The Advice Centre also runs a recycling project which contributes to the funds needed to run the centre. The project also alleviates pollution and empowers the community by showing them sustainable grassroots initiatives and alternative ways of making money whilst saving the environment.

The challenge

Funds generated from recycling done on the premises (collection and sorting of waste) were used to finance both the operation of the day care centre as well as the advice centre. This income stream is now under threat as the big recycling companies are taking over.

recycle center

As the big recycling companies are taking over the small informal guys are getting less and less market share and are slowly being squashed out of the market. This poses a big threat to the Human rights center as the recycling was helping fund the running of the Human right center. Upcycle are training the people from the recycling center and the local community how to create products from the waste that can be sold at a higher value then recycling can currently produce.

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The Orange Farm Human Rights Advice Centre was established to alleviate the suffering of the community members through sustainable grassroots initiatives aimed at local empowerment, to improve access to health services and justice and educational opportunities in order to fulfill basic human rights. They also aim/ed to make the community aware of their rights enshrined in the Constitution and to go further and engage (and influence) public policy processes which would lead to accountability at local government level. The community still continue to visit the premises seeking its services. This is why stakeholders in the community met to look at possibilities of resurrecting the centre and why the centre is still in operation despite the many obstacles it faces such as funding, land ownership, proper facilities and poor service

Upcycle Would like to assist the center to uplift its community and make a positive difference to the planet at the same time.

Your funding can be the catalyst for real, sustainable change

We would like to encourage any corporates that would like get involved in a SED or CSI project to contact Winnie McHenry atThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 082 780 3673.

This community is making things happen and you would be very proud to be the funder of such an awesome group of people.

Creativity workshop

Ever wondered if you have that creative spark lying dormant within you?
Have you ever explored your imaginative side?
Creativity workshops set free creativity across the world: Creativity Workshops are becoming more and more widespread as intellectual property becomes the world's most valuable commodity. Many Companies are willingly to spend millions on creativity workshops for their employees so that they can stay on the cutting edge. Entrepreneurs know that they are one brilliant idea away from a multi-million Rand fortune and they value creativity highly.

Creativity is required to succeed in business, ranging from broad strategic thinking to troubleshooting tactical problems. People are by nature creative, and in the right atmosphere, with the right training and tools, everyone can tap into this inherent talent.

You will generate both new work and glean ideas for the work you are currently making. Our variety of techniques will help you to find your way in your chosen area – of big business.

We at Upcycle have just the solution, for you, a weekly Workshop of 3 hours per week; we will help you unlock your inner creativity. Our inspired team will lead you through the various techniques of different disciplines. These Workshops run from 6 pm to 9 pm.

R 100.00 per person, occasionally we require an additional payment for materials, not more than R 50.00 should the materials be required, this will be communicated prior to the Workshops.

Upcycle has brought together people from all professions, ages, and nations. What Creativity Workshop participants all have in common is an interest in the creative process, a spirit of curiosity, and the desire to explore and harness the power of their imaginations.

We offer one of the only workshops that have all kinds of corporate and business people in the same Workshops. We have developed exercises that evoke the universal and archetypal, and we focus on the artistic process rather than any one specific discipline.

We are based in fontainebleau, 84 maria st.

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For more information and booking contact Winnie via email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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