- Title
- The role of craft in poverty alleviation in semi-rural communities
- Creator
- Pillay, Tania
- Subject
- Handicraft -- Vocational guidance -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Community arts projects -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Economic assistance, Domestic -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Date Issued
- 2015
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/2981
- Identifier
- vital:20382
- Description
- This treatise explores the role of craft and craft training as a tool within poverty it looks to question the sustainability of this approach. The research was conducted amongst three community school sites. These were structured to better the relationships between schools and community members, in particular school parents. As the data had been collected through open questionnaires, after the first phase of implementation, it found that each site was trained in entrepreneurship and a craft skill. These were exercised through a selling opportunity within the Sundays River Valley. Assessments of the project looked to question and consider not only the implementation and framework of the project, but the expectations of both the participants and the facilitators. The data collected was reviewed in regards to the SRV Project’s goals and successes, as well as the universal measurements of success viewed within craft based projects and programmes with a poverty reduction focus. Findings showed that the project, though successful in meeting the basic goals, faced challenges in regards to funding, time constraints, participation consistency and challenges in market and product understanding. Recommendations were made in accordance with indicators highlighted in successful and sustainable models of craft based poverty alleviation projects.
- Format
- vi, 72 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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