Progress report for
Skills Village 2030 - Xperience 2030 SDG Challenge
Achievement at a glance
Skills Village 2030 is working towards the creation of a 'shared value' circular economy - the Village is made up of 12 buildings on the edge of the Inner City of Johannesburg and currently has 70 small enterprises where we are at a small scale seeing the benefits of a circular economy - we were privileged to be a supplier on an SDG event that took place in Johannesburg recently - one of the elements required was beading a cushion cover of one of the Sustainable Development Goals - this created an awareness of how we can create work in the rural areas where many of the elders who are skilled at this handworking craft, would be able to transfer skills to a new generation if we did more of this type of work. We have made up an Event Calendar - which is not perfect, but which enables us to look at the indicators and fine up on how local communities can have small events aligned to the goals and through this hopefully make small contributions in the move towards the socially inclusive society we would like to be part of. From this calendar of events we will be looking to create installations relevant to the goals on the street side of the buildings - hopefully creating some quirky elements that will create awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals. There is a youtube video showing a little about a Socio-Economic programme we did with the local children https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo4w8VOrwg8 as well, one on the Skills Development as the model is about creating a Village with 'shared resources' to enable to access and benefit from the circular economy for local communities. Skills you tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo4w8VOrwg8Challenges faced in implementation
We love the SDG's and working with events (which everyone thinks are just fun) - we are excited about the role that events can play and we are so aware that most folk, understandably are interested in just what is relevant to them - with the 169 different indicators the word that we hear mostly is "over whelming" when they look at the graphics and the 'plans'. So for 2019 we are hoping to do programmes with the local children on creating awareness of the SDG's and focussing on having a major festival for the October week 13 - 17 October which includes International day for Natural Disaster Reduction, World Standards Day, World Food Day, World Rural Women's Day, Global Handwashing Day and finishing off with a local community parade for the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Then to hopefully see this growing over the next 11 years to make the difference we all want to happen around poverty.Beneficiaries
The local community at this stage who are helping to prepare the Village for the next phase - planning and preparing for the Village to be a space to go, to be, to learn, to earn and create the circular model - eg there are sewing cooperatives, and printing and carpentry and beadwork, artists. As well, working with a group of young entrepreneurs on the event value chain. Events aligned to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals create opportunities for building capacity, capability and communitas in a safe, fun environment. Basically, turning eventing know-how into a collective vehicle for sustainable development solutions. \r\n\r\nWe are hoping to create awareness of Experience 2030 - as a social media challenge aligned to the Sustainable Development Goals over the next year. Sharing experiences, sharing the learning, sharing the resources - the model has been designed as a replicable model where we could have Skills Village hubs in local communities and the members would have access to the shared resources to enable them to create small low key successful events like local community market days, and creating awareness of events around the SDG's in their own communities to which visitors would come and spend time and money.