The workers participate in a large range of activities such as:
preparing a light meal with the supervision of one of the personnel
making coffee and tea
setting the table, cleaning, as well as washing dishes
personal hygiene
reading, writing and other needed life skills.
WORKING ACTIVITIES
The working activities include:
handcrafts such as beading
knitting and crochet
painting
card making etc.
Once a month an interesting activity is presented to our workers. The following have already been part of these activities:
Demonstration and participation of fruit and vegetable decorations for a party platter.
Demonstration on how to decorate different sizes and shapes of candle.
Crochet lessons with the different stitches and how to make certain items
Visits to Craft Expo’s like Hobby-X and SARCDA and shops so that they can see what the market trends are.
Life skill demonstration on how to care for and treat hands and nails.
Cake decorating, card making, pewter work, knitting with looms and weaving
Visit to Design Team’s workshop to see how screen printing on material is done
Working with modelling clay
OUT OF CENTRE ACTIVITIES
After each Teodora market we spoil our workers with an out of Centre activity to show appreciation for their hard work and achievements for and during the market. Workers and personnel vote on what they would like to do and recently we have enjoyed:
Ten-pin bowling with a lunch.
Visit to Farm Inn where they were treated with breakfast and a game drive.
Gauteng train ride to Rosebank with coffee at Star Bucks and lunch at Mikes Kitchen.
Trip to Hartbeespoort dam, which included a cable car ride, lunch at French Toast Restaurant and a drive over the dam wall.
Going to the cinema with a cold drink and popcorn and lunch afterwards.
