Décor for Gala Dinners can be manufactured by a social project, creating jobs and sustainability
Elaborate elegant and ethnic Table and Room Décor enhance most Gala Dinners, which in the past was mostly hired from Décor Companies. Why not make a difference with your Gala Dinner Décor? With enough notice time, the décor can be manufactured, sewed and crafted by projects in the townships, creating employment, motivation and sustainability.
A great example are the artists from Original T-Bag Designs. Their homes are bits of tin and wood nailed together and they have had no formal schooling. But what they do have is grit and imagination and a desire to make their families’ lives better.
The artists use recycled tea bags as their canvases and they are painting themselves out of poverty. Used tea bags are collected and dried in the African sun. Then they are emptied of leaves and carefully ironed. Finally, each tea bag is painstakingly painted. They work mostly at home during these early phases so they can care for their families while they work. Sometimes the little ones help by emptying out tea leaves.
The group gathers together to assemble the finished products: menu cards, place mats, candles, coasters, tea light holders and other table decor. One of the artisans, Nomsa, recently earned enough money from painting tea bags to move from an inadequate shack to a solid new house. Nomsa said, “The most wonderful thing in the world is hearing the rain on the roof and knowing that my children are warm and dry.”
