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Bottle Craft (SA) was started off in late 2004 as a garage-based hobby industry, manufacturing and distributing Bottle Cutting Kits & Accessories, primarily to the hobby and craft industry in SA. After attending a “Small Business Expo” in Durban early in 2005, Jo realized the huge potential of the Bottle Cutting Kit as an income-sustaining self-employment opportunity for potential HBBO’s [Home-Based-Business-Operators]. The Bottle Craft concept then experienced a change in direction and a “make-over’; the traditional “craft kit” was re-branded to the “Business-in-a-Box Bottle Cutting Kit. Given the alarming rate of unemployment in South Africa, Self Employment is not longer just a ‘Good Idea’…it is the ONLY way to really impact significantly on poverty alleviation, job creation and community upliftment in general in South Africa.
Bottle Craft currently operates from the Grabouw, located within the Overberg Region in the Western Cape approximately 60 km’s from Cape Town. Over the past four years we have provided kits, training and equipment to over 5000 crafters and entrepreneurs from all over the world. We have helped develop projects in Rawsonville, Khayalitsha, Gugulethu, Port Elizabeth, Durban , Botswana, QwaQwa (Drakensburg), Namibia and Grabouw. A large number of Bottle Crafters have already been ‘enabled’ to generate a sustainable source of income and by already selling their goods at local craft stalls, traffic intersections and flea markets.
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