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Yebo beach Feva clean up project [December 17 2006]

WorkNow was privileged to be contracted to help clean up the Hout Bay, Clifton & Camps Bay beaches over the festive season. This entailed providing 3 teams of 10 workers plus a supervisor per beach. They worked from the 16th of December through to the 8th of January with only Christmas day as their day off. Work started with rollcall at 7am & beach cleaning finished at 3 30 pm. Their tasks included removing all litter, removing kelp where possible & educating the general public to support the beach cleanup campaign. Although the public did their bit each team removed on average 30 blue council bags of litter a day resulting in a total in excess of 2000 bags from the 3 beaches for the campaign. The public response was enormously positive with a number of beachgoers telling the team leaders that they were going to change their cellphone contracts to Vodacom because the beaches looked so clean! The teams had their tough times (like the Hout Bay team that found a body under the kelp) but also had plenty of fun. All teams made it into the local media in some way with the Camps Bay team making it onto SABC news.  The most positive aspect for the WorkNow organisation is that R93000 in the form of wages made its way into the hands of the unemployed over this period. Yebo Feva Beach cleanup was considered a huge success by everyone involved.

Happy Christmas for 143 workers [January 10 2007]

December was another record month with delivery of 1435 workdays.  143 people were employed at an average number of workdays of 10 per person

November another record month [December 3 2006]

With over 800 work days recorded, November was our busiest month to date.  This represents a 44% increase over our October figures and this was achieved with 97% of our customers being satisfied.

WorkNow launches IY fire appeal [November 9 2006]

Last night, in a howling South East gale, a fire ripped through Imizamo Yethu, burning 41 houses to the ground and leaving 181 people homeless.  One of these people was Zodwa Mbali. Last month Zodwa found employment through the WorkNow! programme for the first time in months. She was offered a job, Monday to Friday, as a domestic worker and for the first time in a long, long time, Zodwa felt hope again.  Last night, that hope burnt to the ground . She arrived home from work to a burning home. As a single mom, she is left with two sons, aged 4 and 11 and just a suitcase full of the few belongings her neighbours could salvage.  Zodwa is the first person from WorkNow! that we have heard about who lost her home in the fire. There could be more.  We have decided to set up a collection point at our office at Sijonga-Phambili and are appealing to you to help us help those in need.  We will find a way to best distribute items into the community and ask you to please look through your cupboards and let us have any of the following:

anything will be welcome and used in some way or another.  Should you prefer to make a monetary donation, please could you deposit the money into the WorkNow! account: Please use your name and Fire IY as a reference

Account:    Heavenly Promise

Bank:       First National Hout Bay

Branch:    204-009

Account:   62052818683

Record Month for October [November 3 2006]

October 2006 was another record month with 562 work days recorded, a whopping 138% increase over the August figures.   This fantastic result was achieve whilst retaining our employer satisfaction levels - 92% of employers were satisfied with their employees.

30 minute response time for supplying a domestic worker [October 11 2006]

In what must be our fastest response to date, Tania was called for help with a domestic at 10:30 am one day and by 11 am Margaret had reported for work at the employer !!

Record Month for September [October 3 2006]

September 2006 was a record month for WorkNow! with a total of 377 work days recorded.  The office has been running flat out with almost 300 application forms received and more than 200 interviews held.

WorkNow! at Classics in the Bay [October 1 2006]

Great fun was had by all that attended the annual Classics in the Bay at Kronendal School on Sunday October 1.  WorkNow! were proud to supply the Rotary Club of Hout Bay with 6 workers for the event.