- Tea bags Project

Original T.Bag Designs is a project set up in Hout Bay, Cape Town, to give employment to impoverished South Africans in the Settlement there. Re-cycled teabags are decorated and affixed to a variety of products for sale. Our Friendship Link club SI Cape of Good Hope also supports this project and our good friend and Soroptimist Sue Pritt has been a volunteer for the last five years.  Several of our own Club members have visited Hout Bay and seen the products and the work in progress. 

 We began our involvement with a fund raising tea party last year (2009) which raised £240: this provided lighting for their shop and resulted in increased sales from the first week of usage.   This year we plan more tea parties where guests will hear about the work and have the opportunity to purchase the products such as coasters, trays, 

 And we are also helping to keep the project supplied with their raw material – empty used tea bags !